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
St David's Day
Daffodils everywhere, Welsh cakes on the table and the smell of rarebit and leeks coming from the kitchen... it must be St David's Day!
St David's Day was honoured at Woodside House this week with all the traditional food, flowers and fun. We held Welsh quizzes, laughed at our attempts at place names, decorated with dragons and daffodils and enjoyed some delicious food. Our residents got really stuck in with cooking the rarebit and telling stories of holidays in Wales.
Preparing For Spring
The residents at Woodside House have been preparing our garden for Spring this week.
We are very fortunate to have a range of birds visit our beautiful gardens and we wanted to prepare for their Spring arrival. The residents have been choosing locations for bird feeders and filling them with food. With the weather getting better it has been a great week to get out in the sunshine and do some pottering in the gardens with friends.
Valentine's Day At Woodside House
Valentine's Day at Woodside House was celebrated with a romantic, rose-filled Afternoon Tea party in our beautiful atrium.
All of our lovely ladies received roses and our gentleman received chocolates. We all enjoyed a wonderful afternoon of music and dancing.
Exercising With The Community
Chair exercises with the Norwich Community Sports Foundation.
The residents at Woodside House have been taking part in the exercise sessions run by the fantastic team at Norwich Community Sports Foundation.
These sessions are tailored to ability and fun for all, there are always a lot of laughs with this session. Although there is a rumour that some of the ladies only attend because the instructor looks good in his shorts!
Fun In The Snow
Do you want to build a snowman?
It turns out the residents at Woodside House did want to build a snowman and so enlisted the help of our activities to make the most of the winter weather. A carrot donated from the kitchen and a scarf donated by a member of staff and we have our own little snowman making everyone smile.
He may not be the best snowman in the world, but he is ours and we love him.
Catching Up With Our Volunteers
At Woodside House we are fortunate to have a wonderful set of volunteers. Under normal circumstances these volunteers visit the home and spend time with the residents chatting, playing games, teaching music, learning new skills and becoming great friends.
We miss our volunteers very much and cannot wait to be able to invite them into the home again. Teresa has been missing our volunteer Heather and her amazing piano playing, so we arranged a catch up for them via Zoom in one of the quieter lounges. Heather is now going to be playing piano for Teresa and the other residents twice per week via video link. This is a great way of keeping everyone in touch until we can have the volunteers back to Woodside House.
