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
Happy New Year!
Residents, family and friends joined together on new years day to enjoy an afternoon of rock & roll entertainment courtesy of Johnny Parrish who turned our home into his very own Graceland.
As we start 2025 as we mean to go on, with regular live musical entertainment, we also wanted to celebrate 'Elvis' The King of Rock & Roll as his birthday falls on the 8th January and Johnny helped us do both.
He sang a melody of Elvis classics, and a variety of songs from the 40’s-60’s we all remembered. Resident; Violet took a starring role as Peggy Lee singing ‘If you were the only boy’ back to Johnny.
We danced and sang along throughout, the whole session was a fabulous way to welcome in the new year!
Christmas Day
Here at Paternoster House we had a fantastic Christmas Day, with family visits followed by a delicious festive lunch with turkey, roast potatoes, pigs in blankets, puddings and cakes.
In the morning we welcomed Mrs Christmas Elf 'Angel Angie' from the North Pole, who brought gifts to all our residents as, unfortunately Santa had his sleigh clamped in Waltham Abbey!
As everyone was busy opening their presents and getting ready for the festive feast, our hospitality team added the finishing touches to the tables with some resident made centre pieces.
After the fabulous lunch prepared by our talented chefs, we tuned in to watch and listen to the King's speech. Our day was filled with joy, smiles, music and laughter.
We would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas!
What a great Christmas Eve!
To celebrate the festive occasion, our residents, friends, family and staff got together for a Christmas Eve party with live entertainment from Dennis One Man Stand with his mixture of sing-along classics and Christmas Carols. It was Santa and Elf hats galore as we sang, danced and laughed together all getting very excited for Christmas Day.
Creating Christingles
As Christmas is nearly upon us, many of our residents attended the weekly in-home Church Service which, this week had an uplifting Christmas theme with hymns and carols.
In the afternoon, our activities team supported our residents to create their own Christingles.
Each element of a Christingle has a special meaning and helps to tell the Christian story; the orange represents the world, red ribbon symbolises the love and blood of Christ, the sweets represent all of God’s creations and the lit candle represents Jesus’s light in the world, bringing hope to people living in darkness.
We're all in the Christmas spirit, and thankful for all we have…and eating the leftover sweets was an extra special Christmas bonus!
Paternoster Resident's Christmas Party
Here at Paternoster House our residents we love to party!
With David Brierley providing the afternoons entertainment, our residents, friends and family all together, and the Christmas party food and drinks flowing … it was always going to be a festive fun-filled Friday. The Merry Christmas photo frame made for some wonderful pictures that our activities team will be printing for friends and family to keep.
It was a fabulous day of song and dance and we can't thank the local community enough for the wonderful raffle donations. The first prize Christmas Hamper donated by Tesco Community Champion; Michelle was one by Resident; Sidney.
Mrs Christmas - Heidi Entertains
On the 17th day of our Countdown to Christmas Calendar our residents and staff were treated to a super swingout session from the lovely Mrs Christmas - Heidi McCaffrey!
Her live performance had us all ‘stepping into Christmas’ with a melody of ABBA classics and festive tunes. Heidi is a regular singer here at Paternoster House and we look forward to seeing her again in 2025.
Thank you Heidi for keeping our wonderful residents (and staff) fit and active throughout the year. Merry Christmas for everyone at Paternoster House including all our visiting friends, and family that you always manage to entice to the dance floor!
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.
