Welcome to the St Malachy’s College
Physical Education Department
St Malachy’s College has an unrivalled reputation for excellence across a wide range of sports. The Department of Education in conjunction with the Sports Council for Northern Ireland has awarded the College a “Sports Gold mark” in recognition of excellence in the delivery of curricular physical education and extra-curricular sports activity.
Five physical education specialists staff the department, each of whom has teaching responsibilities in other departments within the College.
These teachers are:
Mr Paul McCrory (Head of Department)
Mr Patrick McKillop
Mr Adrian Fulton (Head of Junior PE)
Mr Philip Molloy
Mr Joe McAllister
The prime objective is to ensure successful pupil participation in a broad range of skill based and health-related activities. The College PE Department delivers four key areas of the National Curriculum for Physical Education. These are:
Athletics
Games
Gymnastics
Swimming
Years 8 to Year 12 pupils are timetabled to have 3 periods of PE per week. Years 13 and 14 have the option of having 2 periods of PE per week.
The onsite facilities include a large Sports Hall with adjoining Minor Hall, a fully equipped Gymnasium; a state-of-the-art flood lit synthetic grass pitch and 3 Handball alleys.
The College also makes use of a variety of off-site facilities for curricular PE. These include Queens PEC, Ballyearl, Mary Peters Track, Antrim Forum, Mallusk Playing Fields and Cherryvale Playing Pitches, Ballyearl Golf Centre, UUJ Fitness Suite.
The College also offers a variety of extra-curricular activities including Basketball, Athletics, X-Country, Gaelic, Soccer, Swimming, Water Polo, Hurling and Golf.
Other activities offered in the College, co-ordinated by Mr. Fulton, are Archery, Badminton and Rugby.
There are a range of activities that are taught during Curricular PE. These include:
Athletics
Badminton
Basketball
Gaelic Football
Golf
Gymnastics
Health related PE
Hurling
Soccer
Swimming
Volleyball
Rugby
Personal Fitness Profiles
Each pupil that attends St Malachy’s College has a Personal Fitness Profile. They will carry out a fitness test at the beginning and end of each year, from Year 8 to Year 12.
These tests serve a number of purposes, which are outlined below.
1) Indicate levels of fitness
2) Encourage pupils to monitor their fitness levels
3) Encourage pupils to maintain a healthy lifestyle
4) Identify what areas of fitness need to be improved
The fitness test consists of numerous exercises which assess the pupils’ limits in the following areas:
· Strength
· Flexibility
· Stamina
The profile that each pupil receives in Year 8 is kept and used each year so that the pupil can see how they have improved from Year 8 to Year 12.
Click on Page 2 below to find out what you will learn in P.E.