Activities at Paternoster House Care Home
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.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
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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
Community Spirit
There has been such warmth and generosity from the local community this Christmas. A massive thank you to those who donated to the Community Christmas wish list at Waltham Abbey Tesco, your kind generosity means so much to our residents and thank you to Michelle Moore, the Community Champion you are a true star for making this possible.
We also had a lovely surprise visit from the Wishing Well Nursery who wanted to deliver Christmas biscuits and wish our residents a Merry Christmas along with a special message saying they are looking forward to visiting us again in 2024 for their weekly session of singing and playing with their friends at the home.
Wilson the Walaby Settles into Paternoster House!
Paternoster House had a very unusual Christmas visitor, Wilson the white wallaby! Performing Pets who bought along the special visitor explained the significance of white wallabies at Christmas, in Australia legend has it that Santa swapped his six reindeer for six white wallabies. Wilson enjoyed exploring, but was equally happy cuddling up to residents and staff. His fur was beautifully soft and like so many animals had real intuition as he calmly sat on residents’ beds and was very gentle.
Waltham Abbey Support Special Visit
Paternoster House residents had a surprise visit from Santa and his helpers. The visit soon turn into a party with everyone on their feet singing and dancing! Santa even managed to find time for some individual room visits for the residents who were unable to come out and dance. We would like to say a big thank you everyone from Waltham Abbey Support for making this happen and bringing some festive fun.
Christmas Party Fun!
We were delighted so many families could join us for our fantastic Christmas party with great company, a delicious buffet and the popular drinks trolley which went down a treat! Thank you so much to the talented U3A Singing for Fun Choir who entertained us and certainly got us all in the Christmas spirit.
Roller Coaster Ride For Residents!
It is day 13 of our Christmas Count Down and the excitement was building for our mystery tour for residents and what a treat it was. We visited the Lakeside Christmas Wonderland and with the help of the wonderful Paternoster House team we went on several rides! It is worth watching the videos on Facebook! It may have been wet but it didn’t stop us having so much fun and we soon warmed up with a lovely hot drink in a beautiful cosy café.
CD for the Winner!
Christmas Jumper Day was a great success and to top it all off we had the wonderful David Brierley to entertain us too. True to his word there was a CD for the winner! It really was a fun day with everyone getting involved with some great t-shirts and jumpers being worn. The Paternoster penguin is never far from the action!
Upcoming events
