On the 31st of October we went to the Farnham lantern festival. Throughout September and October, our residents worked on making lanterns to take to the Farnham Lantern Festival. Our activities co-ordinators collected 10 lantern making kits to use and residents either made their own or paired up and made lanterns around different themes such …
Our Totem pole project we started earlier on this year is finally complete! We celebrated the completion of this project by hosting an outdoor afternoon party, inviting the mayor of Farnham to unveiling our Totem pole with friends and family present. The construction of the ceramic totem pole was a workshop run by Katie Netley …
Today was one of our residents 99th Birthday. We set up an area on our patio where their friends and family could sit and have some of the buffet prepared by the caterer. We decorated with balloons, bunting, flags and flowers. The day was full of sunshine and the resident enjoyed getting to see everyone …
In house Activities: In the first half of this year we have had a wide range of activities happening in house at woodlarks from performers putting on a show to having farm animals visit. Currently our biggest ongoing project is our clay totem pole that we started back in early May. We are working with …
On the 30th of July we took a group of our residents to birdworld for the day. The day was full of sunshine and the residents got the chance to see and learn about a variety of different species of Birds and some farm animals. For lunch the residents enjoyed a picnic made by our …
Today we took our residents on a boat trip down a river canal. The trip lasted most of the day with residents getting to see new sights and spend the day looking at the British countryside as the boat slowly took them for a cruise down the river. One of the residents had let me …
Our activity centre had organised a cycling trip for one of our residents after seeing that he has an interest for bikes and would often partake in cycling during his physio sessions. The activities manager had decided to take a couple additional residents which had also expresses to do more physical activities outside of physio …
We have continued to take residents on walks around our surrounding area throughout June by taking residents out in smaller groups. By doing these small trips out we can make sure each residents gets a chance to have some time enjoying activities outside of woodlarks. Recently we have gone to areas such as Frensham ponds …
Today we have officially started our newest project making a totem pole out of clay. We decided on doing a Woodland theme having various different animals like badgers, squirrels and birds with trees and fruits around them. The activity took up the entire day and we had a ceramicist named Katie Netley come in to …
In the first few weeks of May we have been lucky to have lovely weather with days full of sunshine and warm weather. We have been trying to more activities outside such as gardening and nature walks around the campsite next door. During this time residents have also been participating in doing some baking. They …