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
Christmas Cake
Here at Woodside, we are very pleased to announce that our Christmas cake won first place in Barchester's central division. We are all very pleased!
Christmas Day
Here at Woodside House on Christmas day the staff dressed up as elves and brought Christmas cheer to all.
With festive fun throughout the day the elves were greeted with laughter wherever they went, delivering presents, playing games and encouraging all to have that extra Christmas tipple.
Elf Day
Here at Woodside, we celebrated Elf Day! We all dressed up in elf costumes and spread Christmas cheer around the home. Some of the naughty elves got up to mischief by encouraging residents to open presents early and to eat Santa's mince pies!
Our New Visiting Pod
We are pleased to announce that our new visiting suite is now open.
The designated visiting suite has been designed with both comfort and safety in mind, and has been recently adapted from a room which is accessible internally by residents and externally by visitors. The room is similar to a living room with comfortable furnishings and heated to create a welcoming and warm environment for residents to continue to spend time with their loved ones in the upcoming months. The room has an intercom system fitted so residents can clearly communicate, and engage in conversation, whilst being able to see their friends and family through a Perspex glass divider fitted for safety to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day is very important to us all here at Woodside as many of our residents have served in the Armed Forces. We started off by decorating our atrium area and making poppies, whilst sharing memories of conflicts we have seen. We also created knitted poppies which we sold to raise funds for the National Poppy Appeal.
We all enjoyed watching the parade and the service at the Cenotaph, followed by the Queen's speech. All accompanied by a lovely pot of tea with delicious, poppy-themed, cupcakes on the side.
National Apple Day
We celebrated National Apple Day here at Woodside. We had a selection for our residents and staff to try: apple cake, apple pie with cream, Granny Smiths, Golden Delicious, and lots more. Residents enjoy reminiscing about when they were little children and how their mothers would cook with apples.
