Head of Department: Miss J. Price
Staff: Mr. D. Rees
Support Staff: Mr. Davey & Mr. Corbisiero

Physical Education at St. Michael's is a busy department, staffed by experienced and committed sports' teachers, offering a wide range of sports. At all times of the year there are skills being developed, competitions entered, trophies to be defended and individuals to be coached.

Philosophy
We hope that every child on leaving school in years 6/11/13 will have achieved the following:

• The ability to participate in and enjoy a wide range of physical activities
• To be aware of the needs of others in social and sporting awareness
• To appreciate the importance of fitness and physical activities
• To develop an awareness of the aesthetic qualities of physical activities

Teaching
Children are taught P.E. from nursery classes from the age of 3 to year 11. In the Preparatory school, the children are taught a variety of sports with the emphasis on enjoyment and participation. Matches are played regularly in netball/soccer/rugby (Winter), tennis/rounders/cricket (Summer). Swimming is also part of the curriculum.

In the senior school, a wide range of sports are taught, again, with an emphasis on enjoyment, although competitiveness is encouraged. The sports are netball/hockey/cross country running/rugby/soccer/basketball (Winter), athletics/tennis/rounders and cricket (summer).

As we have no indoor facilities our emphasis is on team games although girls are offered Zumba, Boxercise and dance as part of the curriculum, with outside staff.

GCSE Level
The department now offers GCSE PE for examinations. Our first candidates entered the exam, summer 2004 and we are pleased to see our pupils achieve a 100% pass rate. Since then we have gone from strength to strength with our candidates, offering them a wide variety of sports for their examinations. We follow the Edexel course of 60% practical and 40% theory with examinations in June after a 2 year course.

We are very proud of our success both individually and with teams:

2006/2009/2011 Teams
ISA Netball champions U16

2011 Teams
ISA Rugby 7's runners up Under 16
South Wales - Under 10 Girls tennis champions
Under 11 Carmarthenshire URDD netball champions
South Wales - Under 10 Boys tennis champions
South Wales - Under 11 Boys tennis runners up
Under 12 Llanelli netball champions

2011 Individuals
Ffion Jenkins: Welsh indoor athlete
Elliot Dunne: Welsh Under 16 water polo squad
Niharika Sing; Welsh Under 13 badminton team
Nikhil Pandit: Welsh Under 16 badminton squad
Jade Williams; Welsh Under 19 & Senior 800m/1500m champion (indoor and out)
Kinzah Khan/ Megan Shurmer/ Megan Phillips: County netball
Liam Hargreaves-Gibson/ David Treharne: Scarlets Under 16 rugby squad
William Wang: Swansea City Football School of excellence