Blayney community centre was full to capacity on Tuesday for St Joseph's Primary School's event, Grandparents' day - although a few parents, aunts, uncle, siblings and residents from Lee Hostel and Uralba also helped boost numbers to more than 200.
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The annual event was held the day after students cooked up an array of bakery treats for the school's Junior Master Chef competition with year 5 and 6 students as taste-testing judges.
On Tuesday, each guest at the community centre was greeted with a plate of those treats before students were bussed in to perform songs and dances as the 'home-grown' entertainment. Blayney High School students helped serve the morning tea and lunch.
One of the guests, great-grandmother Barbara Ryan, 83, was actually a Joey's graduate too, having started attending in 1934, and her 14 brothers and sisters also attended.
Mrs Ryan said: "I was a Miskell. A lot has changed since we were kids - we were taught by the nuns.
"I also did some of my high school there - it went to up third year - intermediate," she said.
Her daughter, Anne Wallace attended from 1959, her grand daughter, Natalie Wallace, from 1985 and now great granddaughter, Maddison Henry, has attended since 2007.
Principal Gerard Davies said: "Grandparents' Day [was] a simple and powerful way to affirm and encourage family life and the transmission of faith through the generations."
Prime TV also filmed the event for Tuesday evening's news.
