School children at a rural Hawke's Bay school have been studying the dry summer weather that was this week tipped to become the worst drought in the region in 50 years.
Room 3 at Poukawa School have been studying the conditions that have turned their southern Hawke's Bay farmland "golden,instead of green".
Classroom teacher Jill Simons said the students wrote poems as part of their writing lessons, as the view outside the classroom windows could no longer be ignored.
"Some of the kids live on farms and we have a rural school and it is just very golden out there," she said.
"This is something that's really struck us and it does affect some of them."
