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Woodbury House

January 2018

What’s inside

The Manager’s Welcome Happy New Year to all, I hope that 2017

was as successful for you as it was for us at

Woodbury House. The past month has

been a busy one, full of Christmas magic

made possible by the hard work of our

team, and I would like to personally thank

everyone for their care and dedication.

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Christmas Pantomime

Festive Fun

Creative Minds

Out and About

Adventures of Hamish

Football Update

Arts and Age UK

Around the Home

Wishing Wells

Upcoming Events

A Final Note

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Introduction

Welcome to the first Woodbury House Update of 2018!

Read on for the highlights of the festive season, and to

hear about some exciting upcoming events we have

planned for the months ahead!

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Oh Yes It IS… A Pantomime!

For our main Christmas event on Saturday 16th December 2017 we were treated

to a pantomime performance by the highly entertaining Troubadour Productions.

Their version of Aladdin was wonderful and the nursing lounge was packed with

residents, relatives and friends who came along to join the fun. Activities

Coordinator Irene even had a cameo role as the Genie of the Lamp!

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Festive Fun

Singer Hannah

Cotterill performing

for our residents on

December 13th

Ivan and Ellen

enjoying the hats

they got for

Christmas

Dianne with the

cardboard Christmas

tree that Katty and

residents in the memory

lounge made

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Christmas

Day

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Festive Fashion

Our residents have been

looking fabulously festive

in tinsel crowns and

repurposed wreaths!

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Sing A Song

Of Christmas!

Activities Coordinator Irene

led a festive carol service

followed by Christmas

karaoke on Christmas

morning which went down

hugely well with residents

and the team!

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(Very) Creative Minds Residents on our middle floor have enjoyed the last two Creative

Minds art therapy sessions, creating colourful paintings in

December and exciting firework scenes in January.

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Some of our favourite

trips out this month

included a trip out to do

some shopping and an

afternoon at Farley Hill

Primary School for their

VE Day party where our

residents were guests of

honor!

Out And

About

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Hamish continues to bring joy to the

team and residents of Woodbury

House, seen here doing two of his

favourite things – running around the garden and napping!

Adventures of Hamish

New Year, New Crafts David helped Activities Coordinator

Katty create a wonderfully sparkly 2018 sign for the memory lounge!

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“Up until today (Sunday 7th Jan) the boys have won 5, drawn 2 and lost

1 of their league games and at Xmas were top of the league. The boys

have been very impressive in most of their games this year, not only

in the standard of the football that they have been playing but also in

their teamwork and support for one another when things are not going

as smoothly as expected. We are also through to the last eight in the

county cup with this game due to be played on 20th January.

Unfortunately, we have lost one player to a long term injury and

another has decided that he no longer wants to play football, but on

the plus side we have also signed three new players since the start of

the season and I am sure that these additions will only help to maintain

the strength of the team of the second half of the season!”

Woodbury House proudly sponsor Spencer’s Wood football team,

run by the son and grandson of resident Alec Bunting. Coach Paul

has been keeping us up to date with their successes and has summarized their league performance so far for us.

Spencer’s Wood Football Team

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Arts and Age UK

Woodbury House are very excited to let you know about a

collaborative arts and crafts course with Age UK in January and

February. Starting in mid-January, once a week there will be an arts

and crafts session open to residents, relatives and members of the

community. Farley Hill Primary School will be joining us in the third

week and the sixth week will be an art exhibition showing off all the

lovely things we will have made!

17th January: Making clay animals

24th January: Painting clay animals/Colouring in books

31st January: Making pirate telescopes with Farley Hill Primary School

7th February: Guest artist week

14th February: Valentines/Love Crafts

21st February: Art show

We hope to see some friendly faces!

The course is £3 each week for non-residents, which goes towards materials.

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Around the Home A few nice

photos from

around the

home!

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Wishing Wells Our Wishing Well program aims to

find something special and personal

that we can do for each resident. Big

or small, ambitious or simple, we’re

always looking for new ideas for

making our residents lives even

better. Do you have any ideas,

suggestions or recommendations for

a Wishing Well? Let the team know!

Birthdays

We would like to

wish a very

Happy Birthday to:

Michael K 6th Jan

Joan G 14th Jan

Jennifer R 25th Jan

Activities Dream Team

Irene Vogt, who has been a carer at

Woodbury House for many years,

joined Katty in the activities team in

December. The two have big plans for

making 2018 the greatest year ever for activities at Woodbury House!

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Upcoming Events and Activities

Tuesday 16th January 3.00pm – Residents Meeting

A chance for our residents to voice their opinions about life at Woodbury

House and to discuss any suggestions for improvement with the team.

Wednesday 17th January 2.30pm – Age UK Arts and Crafts Course

Running every Wednesday afternoon for six weeks, this art course is open to all

and encourages community links as well as creativity.

Thursday 18th January 11.00am – Golden Toes Dance Class

This chair based dance class was a hit last time and they’re back again to teach

us all a Scottish themed dance!

Sunday 28th January 2.30pm – Karaoke Club Party

Irene will be leading a karaoke afternoon, with the opportunity to sing along to

all your favourite songs and maybe learn some new ones!

Tuesday 6th February 11.00am – Creative Minds

Run by the talented and charming Kayleigh, our monthly art therapy sessions

have produced some wonderful work. Give it a go!

Monday 12th February 3.00pm – Macular Society Talk

Tom McInulty of the Macular Society will be bringing his guide dog along for

a talk on the society’s work as well as his own experiences with sight loss.

Tuesday 27th February 11.00am – Once Upon A Time…

Our first quarterly focus event is a celebration of storytelling. All are welcome

to join us for a wonderful day of stories and community.

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Woodbury House Care Home

Jouldings Lane, Farley Hill, Berkshire, RG7 1UR

Tel: 0118 9733 885

woodburyhouse.activities@brighterkind.com www.brighterkind.com/woodbury-house

A final note… 2017 was a good year for Woodbury House, with our

successful CQC report, excellent new additions to our team

and many wonderful experiences for our residents. We aim

to make 2018 even better, pushing onwards and upwards in

the high standard of care we provide. We pride ourselves

on being like a family here and treating all who come into

the home as we would want our loved ones treated and to

help them Love Every Day in a brighterkind way.

Samantha Bell

Home Manager

If you have any feedback on this newsletter or any

ideas for our residents’ activities please contact:

Katty Wakeham

0118 9733 885

woodburyhouse.activities@brighterkind.com

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