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.
Angela Hawkins
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 being part of the Activities Team means I can help them achieve their dreams, keep them motivated and happy.
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 Paternoster House Care Home
Employee of the Month - October
Please join us in congratulating Care Assistant; Allison Francis on receiving ‘Employee of the Month’ for October 2024.
Allison was nominated by our residents, her colleagues and residents’ relatives for 'always smiling, being so helpful, kind and caring to everyone with a 'beautiful' nature'.
Deputy Manager Anu a presented Allison with her certificate, £25 voucher and sweet treats giving her thanks on behalf of everyone at Paternoster House for her continued support to all at Paternoster House.
Guy Fawkes Making Fun
Last week our residents had a great time creating a guy for the fireworks Abridge Fireworks & Bonfire Night event. They enjoyed stuffing the donated clothes, making and painting the paper mâché head.
He wasn't as good as Loraine at greeting our visitors and had to go... last seen rolling down the Abridge Village Field we believe he got fired!
Providing a variety of life enrichment activities for our residents mind, body and soul is our aim at Paternoster House. We're welcoming new residents and would love to give you a tour of our beautifully refurbished home.
Queen and Pearls’ for Centenarian Birthday
Celebrations were in full swing at Paternoster House on Saturday 2nd November 2024 as we celebrated the fabulous Violet turning 100! When asked what she’d like for her 100th birthday Violet said, in her distinctive cockney accent “I guess a stripper is out of the question?”
On hearing this the Paternoster House activities team got to work, and with a slight compromise booked the sensational Miss Lightning drag artist to perform. Violet loved every minute of the day.
During the party, attended by Violets’ family, friends, fellow residents and staff she was joined by The Mayor of Waltham Abbey, and surprize guest stars; the dazzling feather plumed Pearly Queen of Clapton Teresa Watts and her mother, Jackie who is the Pearly Queen of Hackney.
It was sparkles all round as Miss Lightning wowed the crowd with a melody of classic party tunes to really get the party started! The birthday girl said: “I’ve had an amazing day full of surprizes, thank you to everybody for making it so special…I’m a 100 you know!”
Corina Popesu, General Manager of Barchester Paternoster House added: “We’re delighted to be celebrating a truly remarkable lady as she reaches this amazing milestone. It was wonderful to host such a fabulous party for Violet, she’s a very popular resident who always has a smile on her face, and interesting tale to tell. Seeing everyone having so much fun in celebration of this wonderful lady’s big birthday warmed all our hearts.”
Monster-Mash Party
Here at Paternoster House we got into the spooky Halloween spirit of things by hosting a monster-mash of a party with delicious Halloween inspired treats, ghoulish games and themed music.
Residents, guests and staff dressed for the occasion, the homes café was a coven of witches, with wizards casting spells and everyone having a spooktacular time together!
Our varied life enrichment programme keeps residents active, and provides a daily choice of engaging physical, mental and spiritual activities tailored to residents’ interests and abilities
Seasonal Pumpkin Carving
As Halloween approaches the residents and staff at Paternoster House have been exploring the joy that pumpkin-carving can bring, particularly for those living with dementia.
Calving pumpkins is a great Halloween tradition for residents to get involved in, and today our residents loved working with the care teams across all four communities to design, carve and pimp their pumpkins!
We know that partaking in activities that stimulate the senses is a great way to encourage reminiscence and the sharing of stories. Our residents and staff had a wonderful time reliving special moments from their past; fond memories of carving pumpkins, from being children themselves, to carving and celebrating Halloween with their loved ones throughout the years.
General Manager, Corina Popesu said: “Our staff and residents love any excuse to get crafty and carving the pumpkins today as part of a whole home competition gave them a licence to get creative and potentially win!”
They all had a tremendous fun digging out the squashes before drawing and carving each design, adding googly eyes, arms, legs and even tongues to make a ‘Paternoster Posse’ of characters.
It was treats all round for the Meadowlands community as Corina and today’s Birthday Boy resident; Robert chose the overall winner as the Meadow-Monster!
Wear It Pink Day
Did you know that over 55,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK, thanks to research, more people are surviving breast cancer than ever before – ‘Wear it Pink’ day is one of Breast Cancer Now’s biggest fundraising events.
The residents and staff at Paternoster House proudly wore all shades of pink in support of this incredible good cause. Many staff donated £1 to wear pink for the day and chef cooked up a storm of cakes for people to enjoy.
The residents helped our activities team create some lovely pink satin bow badges for sale and throughout the day we discussed the importance of checking your breasts for changes. Our Wear it Pink - 'Sweepstake' winner was the beautiful Betty, who was very surprised to receive her bouquet of flowers. Overall the home raised £76.50 for this life changing charity.
Upcoming events
Professional's Networking Breakfast
Are you looking for a relaxed, inviting environment to network with local professionals? Join our General Manager on third Thursday each month for breakfast from 8.00am.
Community Coffee Mornings
Come along and meet new people while enjoying a chat over a hot drink and a selection of sweet treats every Friday from 10am-12 noon.
