Playtimes are arranged into a shift system to accommodate all children in the school yard

Alun Cairns AM

Teachers are forced to take their breaks in a windowless, converted PE storage cupboard after the staff room had to make way for another classroom.

Head of infants at the Welsh-language school, Eldrydd Williams, said: "We are so short of space. The playground is very, very tiny.

"There are 330 children and they have to take their playtime in shifts.

"We can't let them play ball games as there is not enough space.

Cramped

"And we have to put on a bus to take them to the local university to use their sports facilities so we can teach the full national curriculum."

The plight of the school has been raised at the Welsh Assembly.

Conservative Assembly member Alun Cairns said: "On my recent visit to the school I was amazed at the cramped conditions.

"They are truly doing wonderful work but you must ask what they could achieve if they had adequate space and facilities.

"Playtimes are arranged into a shift system to accommodate all children in the school yard."

Mr Cairns said there had been calls for another Welsh primary school in Swansea for a number of years.