The Napoleons Primary School prep pupil spent the occasion with his 101-year-old great-grandmother Dorothy O’Reilly.

Lachlan’s grandparents Aileen O’Reilly and Bev and Ken Maes spent two hours on Wednesday morning playing games, making crafts and getting to know the other grandparents. 

“This is his first year at school and we are keen to see him get started,” Ms Dorothy O’Reilly said. 

The children spent the morning at different workstations, with Lachlan, aged five, showing his grandparents the work he had completed on a laptop. 

Ms O’Reilly came from a much-different generation of learning and never celebrated Grandparents Day at school. 

“I started school in a convent and that was seven miles away,” she said. 

“There were no buses. So I moved to a school that was one mile away. If you were old enough to ride a horse, you would ride to school.” 

Ms O’Reilly was born in Peterborough, South Australia, on February 22, 1914. 

She only moved to live with her daughter Aileen in Daylesford six months ago. Previously, Ms O’Reilly had been living independently in Adelaide.

She said keeping busy was the key to living a long and prosperous life. 

“I go to Legacy and I go to church – someone picks me up and drops me off,” she said. 

“I’d go into the city on public transport to go shopping. The council has a bus to pick me up.” 

Ms O’Reilly has 12 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

“She also has two cats,” Lachlan said. 

Napoleons Primary School principal Trevor Edwards said the day encouraged grand-

parents to become involved in the school community.