Welcome to FunKey Swim!
We would love to welcome you and your child to our new swim school in Forestdale. FunKey Swim is founded by Julia Ham. She has over 20 years of experience in aquatic education and child safety, after swimming internationally as a competitive swimmer for Australia. As a mum of three she is more motivated than ever to give children in the community a lifelong love of water in the safest of hands.
At FunKey Swim we acknowledge that every child is unique. We offer lessons that are aimed at developing the ‘whole’ child, while they move through our learn-to-swim levels. Our program will help your child develop the confidence and skills needed to be happy and safer in the water.
Our FunKey Swim team are selected for their positive, fun and nurturing natures, and trained in our unique FunKey Swim teaching philosophies and methods. They love celebrating your child’s achievements, no matter how big or small.
Our programs
Our FunKey Splashers program is for the little swimmers, from birth to 3 years old. We offer a unique bonding experience to mums and their newborn, while we focus on a gentle (re)introduction to the water. Babies will acquire the skills needed to start their learn-to-swim adventure, as they gain confidence to manoeuvre through water independently for several metres in the correct body position.
By the end of this program, your child will have completed a gentle and happy transition to participating in a lesson without their parent or carer in the water, ready to learn directly with our teaching team members.
Our FunKey Starters program is developed for children aged between 3 and 5 years who are happy and excited to be in the water and start lessons, but who still need to gain confidence or learn how to swim independently.
Our experienced teachers will guide your child, focusing on breath control, balance, submersions, floating and paddling.
We are using our unique games-based boat system to assist with body position and floatation, while increasing confidence with correct body position for independent swimming.
Our FunKey Strokes program is a progressive approach that ensures children learn with others at a similar level and progress through our different levels.
We incorporate a swim-float-swim sequence into our lessons, to ensure each swimmer through our program is provided with a solid foundation to their aquatic education, to make them safer in and around the water.
Our FunKey Strokes lessons are conducted without parental assistance in the pool, learning independently from our experienced and qualified team of teachers.