1st Fives Rugby Union/League - 🏉 – Catch, pass, kick, evade, and handle the ball like a pro! This dynamic mix of Rugby Union, Rugby League, Touch Football, and OZTag gives your child the chance to TRY them all and build confidence through game-based fun. 💪🔥
1st Fives Football - (Soccer) ⚽ – Learn the basics of soccer with high-energy sessions designed to teach dribbling, passing, striking, and ball control – all while scoring goals and having a blast! 🥅⚡
1st Fives AFL- 🏈 – Time to PLAY AFL! Kids will master sending, catching, and kicking the ball, improve coordination, and stay on the move with fast-paced fitness fun. 🏃♂️👟 Let’s get active and kick some goals!
1st Fives Tag/Flag 🏃♂️🎯 – All the FUNdamental movement skills in one awesome program! With running, dodging, throwing, and tagging, your child will be shouting TOUCHDOWN in no time! 🎉🙌
1st Fives Fundamentals - 🧸🤸♀️ – Perfect for early learners! This play-based program focuses on balance, coordination, and body movement through fun activities and games. It’s the ultimate confidence boost and intro to active play! 🎈✨
What to Expect
With 1st Fives, your child will be kept busy learning the FUNdamentals 🎉 in each of the 5 Codes of Football 🏉⚽🏈🏐🏏, and Fundamental movements to increase their locomotor functions such as running 🏃♂️, jumping 🤾♀️, hopping 🐇, galloping 🐎, rolling 🤸, leaping 🦘, and dodging 🕺. Children will begin to understand reflexes ⚡ and work towards improving manipulative skills 🤲 by engaging in all their favorite sports.
Our awesome coaches also involve numeracy 🔢, colour recognition 🎨, turn taking 🔄, and group games 🤝, so children learn how to engage together through sport and help stimulate their cognitive functions 🧠✨.
Our Programs (so far)
A multi-code Footy experience 🏉⚽🏈🏏🥅🎾🏀⚾ offering a taste of 5 different football codes — plus super fun programs to come! 🎉🤩
A Fundamental Movement Program 🤸♂️🤾♀️ designed to support gross motor development 🦵👐 and align with early childhood learning frameworks 📚✨
A special thank you to Associate Professor Brooke Harris-Reeves, whose guidance has helped ensure our programs are educationally aligned and developmentally appropriate.
We’re just getting started — and we’re excited to keep building a movement that grows with our kids 🚀👧🧒. Our programs are inclusive 🤗, curriculum-informed 📚, and most importantly — powered by play 🎉🤸♂️.
1st Fives:
Built for all kids 👦👧. Backed by fun 🎈. Driven by movement 🏃♀️⚡.