Activities at Paternoster House Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Our specialist activities staff are committed to organising a mix of activities and events for residents and the local community to get involved in, including trips out to local places of interest in our minibus and visits from entertainers and musicians. It is important to us that each individual who we support can get as much from these as possible, so we try our best to arrange activities that reflect their interests and capabilities as best as possible, and encourage them to participate in any way they can. We also encourage relatives to join with activities and events as often as they can.

Read our brochure ‘Life-enriching activities’ for more information about life in our care homes.
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Angela Hawkins
Activities Coordinator
Hi my name is Angela, known as Angie, I joined Paternoster House in April 2016 as a care assistant, I have a passion for enriching our residents lives and leading the Activities Team means I can help them achieve their dreams, keep them motivated and happy.
I look forward to getting to know you and your loved ones. We are always open to new ideas, if you'd like to contact me please call the home on 01992 787 202 or email me direct on PaternosterHouse.Activities@barchester.com - New entertainers always welcome.
Celebrating life at Paternoster House Care Home
Painting Pots in the Sun
Our ladies really enjoyed the therapeutic benefits of sitting quietly in the sun painting their ceramic plant pots.
Painting offers various of benefits for individuals living with dementia, including enhancing communication, stimulation, cognitive function, improving moods, and a sense of accomplishment.
It’s lovely to see how careful and focused they are when doing these activities.
Day Trip to Southend Seaside
It's a lovely day to be beside the seaside!
Our residents had a wonderful day in good old sunny Southend-on-Sea! They took a trip down memory lane to family holidays spending their pennies in the arcades, and going to Peter Pan adventure island to try their luck on hook-a-duck and, we couldn’t leave without stopping by the pub and having a drink along the sea front.
Gent's Trip to the Local
Supporting residents to enjoy outings, shopping, meals out and other trips is a key aspect of the weekly activities calendar. This afternoon a few of our Gentlemen wanted to go to our local; Queens Head - Waltham Abbey.
They all enjoyed reminiscing and having a laugh with the activities team.
Monthly Community Disco
This morning we held our monthly disco on our Memory Lane community with residents, friends and family all together to enjoy the disco vibe.
There is substantial evidence that music therapy can be a powerful tool in helping combat the symptoms of dementia. Music therapy has been shown to be a powerful tool to help combat the symptoms of dementia!
We also celebrated Norma’s birthday, she enjoyed sharing her day with other residents and staff dancing and having lots of fun - Happy Birthday Norma.
Strawberries and Cream Anyone?
Today we worked as a team to set up our Wimbledon themed display for the reception area. Some of our residents got stuck in creating hand-made tennis balls and rackets.
They were given the materials and had a little help with the cutting but the rest was left to them. In between their arts and crafts activity, they had a little game of batting the balloon to each other... Wimbledon players watch out!
All before sitting down with Strawberries and cream and a glass or two of Pimm’s to watch the tennis.
Floral Arrangements for Every Community
This morning some of our residents had a blooming good time making their very own flower centre pieces.
They had petals of joy seeing the results when they finished. Well done ladies!
What a Fabulous Summer Fete
Here’s just a few pictures of our successful Summer Fete at Paternoster house yesterday, Saturday 5th July.
Everyone had a fabulous time dancing, enjoying our BBQ, drinking, having a look around the stalls and buying items from the stall holders.
We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who attended, also to all the lovely stall holders from our local community and Colin & his rock n roll friends musical entertainer for all your support and hard work for making it a successful day.
Day Trip to Local Lavender Fields
What a beautiful day for a trip out to the amazing Hitchin Lavender, with is fields fresh lavender for our residents to meander around. The sun shone making it just the perfect day!
We also stopped off for a well deserved drink at the Plume and Feathers pub in Hitchin, where we even met some chickens before we heading back home to share across the Paternoster communities the luscious lavender we'd collected.
Cooking Up a Swirl
This morning's baking club had a wonderful time mixing and shaping fragrant cinnamon swirls!
After baking by chef, they went down a treat with their afternoon brew of choice.
Upcoming events
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 enrichment
With us, it's all about making every day meaningful for our residents. We do this through our Life Enrichment programme, designed to suit the needs of each person in our care, and support individuals in retaining their joy, purpose and life skills for as long as possible. We offer a range of daily activities for individuals to get involved in, whether that's socially as part of a group, solo or with a team member, ensuring everyone receives the support that adds enrichment to their life.
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