Paternoster HouseBarchester Healthcare

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.

Read our brochure

Cathy Knowles

Activities Coordinator

Hello, my name is Cathy and I'm the activities coordinator for Paternoster House. Living life to the full is my motto, and I wish to instill this in all our residents, whatever your ability there is something new to learn or try. Life is for enriching and enjoyment.

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

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.

Our Homes Full of PRIDE

Wow, what a wonderful and colourful day our residents, family, friends and guests have had today!

We had our Open Day at Paternoster House today and invited the one and only Ian Gallagher Singer King of Swing Cabaret Nights to entertain for our residents and celebrate Pride Day with us.

Lots of fun and laughter had by all.

Magical Dementia Disco!

This morning we held our first Dementia Disco. Our residents said “they had a great time and asked if we can do it again”

So now we have a monthly disco for our residents and for anyone from the community to attend, so look out for our posters!

Garden Design and Planting

Our residents and garden design enthusiasts have been working hard to brighten up the Woodlands Community courtyard. The happy team have been painting and planting!

They've potted wild flower seeds to provide enough nectar for the wonderful bees and small insects. We've even bedded down some tomato plants as requested by our residents who remember growing them before joining us.

Resident Barry wanted a Cherry tree to plant in the gardens of Paternoster which is now in the ground. We're all very excited to see it in blossom and eagerly await some lovely cherry’s.

Fun and Games

Our residents decided to have a chilled and relaxing afternoon out of the sunshine by playing some fun table-top games and puzzles together, which they thoroughly enjoyed.

Did you know that we have regular activities, events and entertainment happening at our home that are open to the community?

If you fancy attending alongside our residents, or even challenging them to a game, please call the Activities Team on 01992 787202 to find out more.