• Private swimming teacher

  • Home visits

  • Open water swimming coach

  • Group adult lessons

Welcome to Going Swimmingly –
for all your swimming needs

As a private swimming teacher, I offer swimming lessons in your own pool, throughout Bromley, Croydon, Sevenoaks and Dulwich. 

Fully qualified and insured, I teach all abilities, spanning all ages – babies and children through to adults. I also have experience of teaching those with additional needs.

I’m affiliated with Swim England and cover their National Plan for Teaching Swimming. All participants, from non-swimmers upwards can strive towards Swim England awards (badges and certificates), working their way up to achieve 25 metres plus in all four strokes.

I have a lot of patience and enjoy teaching non-swimmers and those nervous of first getting in the water. I get great pleasure out of helping participants improve and progress over time. With my background as a competitive swimmer, I am particularly fond of honing technique for those who can already swim.

Home Visits

As a private swimming teacher, I offer swimming lessons in your own pool, throughout Bromley, Croydon, Sevenoaks and Dulwich. 

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Group Adult Classes

We hold group adult swimming lessons at Bickley Park School, Bromley on a Saturday afternoon. Classes for beginners, including those who are nervous, are small so that everyone gets some 1-2-1 attention.

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Open Water Coaching

I have transferred my swimming teaching skills to the open water. I learnt from the best and completed my Open Water Coaching qualification with Keri-anne Payne (GB Olympic swimmer).

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Any questions? Please get in touch

Contact

About Me

Hi, I’m Kirsty Harper and I love the water.

I devoted much of my time as a teenager training for my club, Haslemere. Most weekends were spent taking part in galas around the region. I was lucky enough to represent and compete nationally for Surrey and won many medals along the way as well as holding a number of club records.

After 20 years of working in an office, mainly specialising in marketing, I decided to follow my passion and teach others to swim. I have been qualified for almost 10 years now. I regularly undertake continuous professional development (CPDs) to enhance my knowledge and to keep up-to-date with current practice.

I have a love of open water and can often be found swimming or paddleboarding in a lake. I have taken to winter swimming in Beckenham Place Park and even ice swimming (-2°). And I love it!

What customers are saying

“Kirsty’s aqua yoga sessions really helped with my lower back pain during pregnancy. I started going at 14 weeks and continued right through my whole pregnancy to 39 weeks and 4 days! It was thoroughly enjoyable. I couldn’t do all the adapted yoga poses, so Kirsty gave me other ones that i was able to do more easily. I would highly recommend it!”

“Thank you for helping Mazie with her swimming, she started after school classes last week and got her 5m badge already!”

“One of the best bits about having lessons with you, was doing some lifesaving activities and being able to swim in my pyjamas.”

“My wife and i had 2-2-1 lessons with Kirsty before we went on holiday. Neither of us had had lessons since we were at school and to say we were rusty was an understatement. We learnt quickly and she taught us to tread water and swim frontcrawl and breaststroke within a couple of months. We were also confident enough to go snorkelling in the sea which we didn’t think would be possible in that short space of time.”

“Coming to our house each week has really helped Hugo become confident in the water and gives us peace of mind that he is safe around our pool at home. The booster sessions in the summer have been fun for him with the different water activities you do with him.”

“At the ripe old age of 68, i plucked up the courage to learn to swim. You’ve been very patient with me, and although i still have a little way to go, at least i can now swim a whole length frontcrawl. Thank you so much.”

“Thank you for being so patient with Mia; after being so scared initially she’s now loving the water and can’t wait for her next lesson each week.”

“I wanted to do a triathlon, but was scared of swimming outdoors. Kirsty gave me the courage to do so with a number of coaching sessions. These included improvements on my technique and skills such as sighting and buoy turns.”

“The snorkelling lessons looked great fun and Leo had a super time – a new skill to use on holiday.”