Ready, set, swim!

ENCORE Dance and Theatre School has partnered with Kids Alive – Do the Five to bring a unique water safety dance show to under-fives in the local community.

Encore teacher and mother Elle Creavin said the dance school would be the first in Tasmania to be performing a Ready Set Dance Water Safety Show.

“It is so important to make sure children know how to stay safe around water and that parents know how to keep their children safe,” she said.

“In the past 12 months there were 17 drownings in Australia in the zero to five age group, and as one of the 250 Ready Set Dance studios across Australia we want to help Kids Alive make this zero.”

During the classes children will learn certain cues through dance and play about how to act around water, how to ask for help, and when to hop in and out.

Encore Dance and Theatre School will start by running under-five classes on-site before expanding to primary schools, day care centres and pre-schools around Hobart.

Kids Alive managing director Emma Lawrence said the partnership with