Activities at Woodside House Care Home
Activities at Woodside House
Our activities team deliver a wide variety of mentally and physically stimulating activities and events for those we support, including coffee afternoons, which we hold every month for the local community, regular outings in our minibus, and visits from entertainers and musicians. Monthly resident meetings help us to ensure that those living here are getting the most out of our activities programme, and that our social events reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible. From growing our own vegetables to making giant paper-mâché animals, there is always something fun going on at Woodside House.
Sam Lake
My name is Sam and I lead our Activities Team at Woodside House.
I have been at Woodside House since 2004 and I love it here. I am responsible for ensuring that the residents are able to participate in sociable, fun and rewarding activities. My team and I are very passionate about our work and love putting smiles on the residents' faces.
We involve the residents in the planning of our activity calendars and encourage residents to continue with the hobbies that they have enjoyed throughout their lives. We will support every resident to try new things and we love learning from our residents every day.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Woodside House Care Home
Baking Club Creates Crumble Masterpieces
The Woodside House Baking Club was hard at work again today creating Crumble masterpieces!
This week there were only minor disagreements over who had the superior family recipe for the perfect Crumble. (In the interests of peace I must say that each Crumble was equally delicious.)
Baking and swapping family recipes, tips and secret ingredients is a wonderful way of socialising, practising skills and having fun - plus there is lots of fantastic Crumble at the end of it!
Armchair Yoga In The Atrium
Moving around to keep fit and stay limber is an important part of health and well-being and is always a focus at Woodside House.
This week we've enjoyed another session of armchair yoga with the motivating Isabel Hewitt. Isabel always ensures the sessions are fun and full of laughter, it barely feels like exercise.
The more we move, the more of chef's cakes we can enjoy!
Fresh Fruit Snacks
As part of celebrating Spring we are encouraging our residents to swap out their cake and biscuit snacks for fresh local fruit instead. Fresh fruit is a great healthy alternative that our chef ensures is always available.
Besides, an extra bit of fruit in the afternoon helps to offset the guilt that comes from being unable to resist a second helping of chef's wonderful desserts after dinner!
Easter At Woodside House
Easter at Woodside House has seen residents enjoying a range of delicious treats, including a wonderful Easter Cake created by our Head Chef.
Our residents have also taken part in online Easter Sunday church services, a special Easter lunch and visits from loved ones.
Ladies That Lunch
Rounding off a delicious lunch, courtesy of the amazing chef at Woodside House, with a glass of wine and a chat with a good friend is exactly what life is all about.
Fantastic food, beautiful decor and impeccable service are just some of the pillars on which Woodside House's reputation is built.
To learn more about life at Woodside House or to take a tour of our beautiful home please contact us on 01603 966 162.
Mum's The Word At Woodside House
Residents at Woodside House celebrated Mother’s Day with a welcome return to indoor visiting. The home was beautifully decorated with fresh flowers for the occasion.
For residents at Woodside House care home the long awaited reunion with one family member has become a reality, as one single named visitor is now allowed to visit each resident in their bedroom, just in time for Mother’s Day.
There has been much anticipation of this moment by families and residents alike. Guidance was issued by the Government on March 4th and Barchester Healthcare is proceeding with a safe and cautious approach to visiting. Strict protocols are in place with all visitors required to have a negative Lateral Flow Device test result before being allowed into the home, and infection control measures and social distancing in place for every visit, with hand holding allowed but not recommended.
Despite the need for testing and social distancing, it was still welcome news for so many residents and their family members to be able to meet in the comfort of their bedroom. Residents and their families enjoyed getting together and catching up face to face.
To celebrate Mother’s Day with residents at the home, staff arranged Afternoon Tea, had a discussion about how the role of the mother has changed and reminisced about the residents’ childhood. The chef and team at the home prepared a Afternoon Tea to mark the day.
General Manager, Elena said: “We’ve all had a really lovely day. This is the first cautious step towards having a buzz of visitors in the home again. It was wonderful to see how happy it made the residents and their relatives. We have a great booking system in place to ensure the visits are well organised, and visitors are doing a great job of following the safety measures to keep everyone as safe as possible. For those that are not able to come inside the home we are pleased to be able to continue to offer visits in our visiting suites or outdoors when the weather allows, as well as video calls.”
