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Maghera Parish Caring Association was founded by the Church of Ireland Parishes of Maghera and Killelagh, in response to a vision over the needs of our local community. The MPCA employs staff to cover multiple project areas, including Youth, Children & Family, Seniors, and Community Outreach.

This blog brings together writing from many different people on our staff team and beyond. As such, what appears here may not always represent the viewpoint of the MPCA or the joint parishes!

For more on the MPCA and the churches it works with, click to the main website here.

If you're familiar with our work, and would like to contribute to this collaborative blog, just e-mail your scribblings, photos, links, etc. to blogs@magheraparish.co.uk. We can't promise that everything will get past our Basement-dwelling censorship elves, but if it's good, we'll share it with the world!

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13 April 10

New Primary Afterschools Programmes

Next week sees the start of two brand new MPCA afterschools programmes in Maghera and Upperlands, aimed at the Primary school age bracket.

Explorers starts on Wednesday 21st April in St Lurach’s Parish Hall, Maghera, from 3pm to 4.15pm.  Following on from the success of the Easter scheme run in conjunction with Maghera Primary last month, we hope to extend this style of program on a weekly basis - a great mixture of sport and games, make and do activities, action songs, competitions, and bible discovery.

Explorers is open to anyone, from any Primary school.  We hope to run the opening on a drop-in basis, so that children coming from other schools can make it in before the organised activities really kick in at about 3.20.

Please consider bringing your child along - and if you’re really proactive, we’re also looking for a few parents to help out with supervision on an irregular basis.

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KCAlso this term, we are working together with Ampertaine Primary school to bring Kwik Cricket to Upperlands!  Every Tuesday after school (starting on April 20th), we will be running Kwik Cricket coaching for everyone in P5-P7 from Ampertaine Primary.

Cricket offers something different for most children’s sporting experience, but in turn is not also one of the few sports that exercises the entire body, but also is excellent for concentration and coordination.  We’re very excited to get to play it for the term with the pupils in Ampertaine.

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For more information on either of the above schemes, please contact Peter at the MPCA office.

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