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
Happiness and Fitness with 'Heidi'
Last week our residents had the ever joyful Heidi McCaffrey entertain them with song and dance. Whatever your ability, Heidi manages to lift spirits, arms and legs! Providing a variety of life enrichment activities for our residents mind, body and soul is our aim at Paternoster House.
Happy Birthday 'Cathy'
Please join the residents and staff at Paternoster House in wishing a very happy birthday to our lovely Activities Lead 'Cathy'.
Cathy spends her time putting smiles on our residents faces so it gave General Manager; Corina great pleasure in being able to put one on her face with the presentation of a yummy chocolate cake and card from us all.
It’s the Year of the Snake!
To celebrate the Chinese New Year, a festival that marks the beginning of a new year on the lunisolar calendar, we enjoyed a creative session making beautiful lanterns and using the Chinese calendar to find out what Chinese Animal Year they were born in.
The activities team handed out fortune cookies and wished everyone good luck and prosperity with a wave from the Chinese good luck cat!
Residents were delighted with the beautiful decorative ‘snake’ lanterns they made and loved how they shone once the nightlights were switch on.
Sharon's Pop-Up Fashions
Our residents had the opportunity to be bang on trend this week when local independant retailer 'Sharon' brought her pop-up clothes shop to Paternoster House. Sharon's range of handpicked items were selected with the elderly in mind, chosen for easy wear and simple care within the home’s laundry process.
Bringing the High Street to our home means those who are no longer able to get out and about and shop for clothes themselves had the opportunity to browse the rails and select items of interest, giving them a sense of independence and time to try on anything they liked making the task of shopping stimulating and fun.
Corina Popescu, General Manager said “We do our best to provide a wide range of activities and entertainment at Paternoster House as part of the lifestyle enrichment programme. We all know that buying yourself something new is enriching. Our residents and visitors have loved this pop-up shopping experience. We will definitely be doing it again, living in a care home doesn’t put a stop on you wanting to look and feel good!"
Aqua Art
We bring a bit of magic to our home to engage our residents and stimulate their senses by providing weekly sensory sessions that help keep their minds active and stimulated.
Interactive games can provide a sense of achievement, and tactile materials help bring back memories that encourage conversations.
Our Aquapaint sheets are always an enriching experience, the joy of seeing the pictures come to life with each stroke of the brush puts the biggest smiles on their faces.
Day Trip to Van Hage Garden Centre
Our residents love getting out and about!
This week we enjoyed a day trip to the Blue Diamond Garden at Van Hage Great Amwell, Ware for a browse around its treasure-trove of plants, landscaped gardens and exciting shops for inspirational ideas to improve Paternoster Houses extensive gardens.
Gardener; Brian provided us all with a mountain of knowledge on each plant/bulb and taking lunch in their lovely cafe was just the ticket to top of a wonderful day.
