Dubbo North Primary School students and staff members joined more than 250 schools across Australia in an initiative to raise the spirits of Australians currently doing it tough due to the dire circumstances of the drought.
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The schools joined in a "Bust the Dust" rain dance, filmed it and posted it online.
Hundreds of students and schools performed their dances at 1pm on Friday 13.
The initiative was sparked by a video that went viral, which showed 19 students at St John's Parish Primary School in Trangie participating in a rain dance taught to them by their teacher Emma Wilson.
St John's Parish school in Trangie posted the video online where they asked Australian's to join them in another rain dance.
The students and Ms Wilson were motivated to make some noise and raise awareness by a goal that's been stuck to their classroom wall all year - to "raise spirits in drought-stricken areas".
Ms Wilson said; "It doesn't matter where you are, all you have to do is stop and have fun."
"Be it, in the workplace, at school, at the supermarket, on the street, at home, at the airport, on the waves, at the beach, on the farm, even on television, let's come together to show our support and help them #bustthedust," she said.
Dubbo North Public School's Assistant principal Jemma Wallace saw the video of the students from Trangie's St John's Parish School on the NSW Rural Aid Facebook page and decided to get her school involved.
"I thought it was a good event to get the students and staff involved in," Ms Wallace said.
"When I saw the video of the St John's Parish school students online, I thought, why not get everyone at Dubbo North Public School to jump on board."
Dubbo North Public School recorded their 'Bust the Dust' rain dance.
It will be posted online in the hopes of continuing to raise awareness across Australia and unite the country in good morale and positivity.
