Students across Australia danced up a storm on Friday, in an effort to bust the drought.
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However it was 19 students in Year 5/6 at St John's Parish School in Trangie who were at the heart of the storm.
The class at St Johns came up with the idea of a simultaneous 'bust the dust' dance event that took place at 1pm on Friday, December 13.
Year 5 student, Isabella Brennan said plans for the event had begun "about a couple of months ago" and they had been practising their dance moves "every day".
"We were just reading and analysing some poems and we came across the song Raindance by Sara Storer and we just thought why don't we hold our own raindance," she said.
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The students created the #BustTheDust dance to give all school communities an inclusive way to show support for rural areas. The class hoped to get the 18 schools in their diocese involved but after the release of their viral Facebook video, more than 600 schools across the nation took part on Friday.
Isabella encouraged people to "get out there and keep dancing" hopeful it would rain again, and thanked their teacher Emma Wilson.
"She's the best teacher, and we wouldn't have been able to do this without her."
Ms Wilson said the drought has had a huge impact on everyone in Trangie.
"It's incredibly important and I think children are often forgotten in the middle of a drought," she said.
"Often people don't ask what they're seeing, what they're noticing and how they're feeling."