Activities at Worplesdon View Care Home
Activities at Worplesdon View
The activities team at Worplesdon View organise and run activities and events for large groups, small groups and individual residents. We include relatives, volunteers and the remaining staff whenever possible and encourage choice and participation from everyone we support. Our programme is planned in advance and is is designed provide tailored, meaningful activities for residents to participate in that will stimulate all senses, whist encouraging mental and physical well-being. We have an activity plan for all residents, and of course, this changes with the needs of each person to keep it up-to-date and useful. Worplesdon View is a fun and dynamic place to live and work, and the secret to this is that everyone is encouraged to see activities as part of their role in the home so that residents are happy and always have something to do.
Marsha Bevan
Marsha comes from a past of organising and planning workshops for school groups and running her own business, with lots of connections to different entertainers, she has undertaken the challenge of managing our busy events and activity schedule. Organised and smiley, you can find her filling in spreadsheets, chatting to residents or playing word games - her favourite activity!
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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 Worplesdon View Care Home
Traditional Scottish Dancing
We recently had the lovely members of the Guildford Scottish Country Dance Club come to our home and showed our residents some brilliant demonstrations and dance routines. We even had some Highland Dancers in Kilts with Swords! They gave us a lovely afternoon of entertainment and highlighted the hard work it takes to come together so we could enjoy traditional Scottish Dancing. It was a really important moment for our Scottish residents and staff to have a little bit of “home” to share with the others. It created some time to enjoy, celebrate and reminisce about moments shared, performing these dances themselves with friends and family past and present.
Volunteer Gardening Programme
We are fortunate enough to be able to join Merrist Wood Volunteer Gardening for their amazing volunteering opportunity. The programme is to improve well-being, learn new skills and make new friends and Rachel has been brilliant with all our residents. It also offers gentle exercise, getting outdoors and connecting with nature. Our residents have thoroughly enjoyed a couple of sessions already in the poly tunnel where they have been shown how to sow seeds and plant planters as professionals. It has been rather therapeutic and interesting as now we can take these skills back to the home and do some more effective gardening and planting to get the best out of our creations and garden.
Magic Table Sessions
We have spent time visiting some of our residents that aren’t very mobile with our Magic Table 360 from Social-Ability, giving them the opportunity to explore the games that support a broad range of cognitive capabilities and enhancing /improving relaxation, sociability, well-being and agitation. We are able to display these images and games on tables, floors, beds, walls and ceilings allowing us to create a suitable space and environment for all residents to enjoy and participate. Some of the games available support residents with movement, motor skills, cognitive and social stimulation, competition, mindfulness, calming and reminiscing.
Animal Learning with Zoolab
We recently had a visit from Jess from ZooLab and it was a brilliant afternoon shared by many residents in the home and we can’t thank her enough for the amazing information she shared and then bringing the animals around everyone. Some residents were brave enough to hold or at least touch some of them. We met a Giant African Land Snail, a Madagascan Hissing Cockroach, an Australian Green Tree Frog, a Royal Python and a couple of Rats. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed seeing and learning about these animal friends and we would recommend organising a visit but we look forward to them returning.
Hatching Chicks
Over the Easter period, residents, family, friends and colleagues enjoyed our new arrival of chicks with the help from Incredible Eggs. We shared pictures and videos of their new adventure into the world and tamed them with physical interaction and getting them to eat and drink over the course of a week. Residents and staff enjoyed some pet therapy with the chicks and it was lovely to see so many people pop past their cage during their visits to our home, especially over the busy Easter weekend.
National Scrabble Day
The 13th April is the day that Alfred Mosher Butts was born, the inventor of Scrabble. The game that is played across the world full of strategy by using double letters, double words or more importantly triple words to create the highest score! Our residents enjoyed a Scrabble Competition where each team played for 15 minutes then changed over to continue building their individual scores. It was lovely to get so many involved and we ended with scores ranging between 179 to 77. Some residents got a real mix of letters so it was brilliant to see them creating words and scoring points, no matter how small. We have decided this type of game play will be nice to do regularly but with 30 minute time slots to give residents a little more time to warm into the game.