Successful lung-transplant boy Reece Walker-Sharpe is going back to school.

The eight-year-old can barely wait to catch up with his lessons and friends just two months after an operation to save his life.

Reece, from Dudley Hill, Bradford, has amazed surgeons at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London by recovering so quickly.

His granddad Brian Walker said: "Doctors told us he has made the quickest recovery from a lung transplant they have ever known.

"Usually it takes six weeks before patients are allowed home but Reece was back in Bradford just three weeks later."

Reece called in to Lowerfields Primary School in Dudley Hill just before the Easter holidays and joined in his first-ever PE lesson. "He's desperate for a PE kit now," said Mr Walker. "He can't wait to get back to school in about a month.

"We'll have to watch out for any colds or bugs doing the rounds because that could cause his new lungs to reject, but apart from that everything's going swimmingly.

"The change after the operation was mindblowing. From a little boy who could hardly walk 50 yards we suddenly had this bundle of energy raring to go - he's certainly keeping us on our toes."

Reece has to go for check-ups at Great Ormond Street every Wednesday but doctors are happy with his fast-track recovery rate. And the brave boy is not being shy about showing off the W-shaped scar across his chest.

Granddad Brian said: "He's very proud of his scar and is quite happy to show it to anyone. He especially enjoyed showing it to the girls at school and making them run away!"

Reece had been on the national transplant waiting list for just a matter of weeks before the hospital rang his mum Donna to say a set of lungs had been found. An ambulance rushed the pair to the children's hospital where 12 hours later surgeons operated for eight hours to give him his new lungs.

A rare heart condition had meant time was running out for the youngster. Doctors told his family without a double transplant he had less than a 50 per cent chance of surviving another 18 months.

His condition - primary pulmonary hypertension - meant his blood vessels were too small to let blood flow properly to his heart, leaving him breathless.

As well as replacing his lungs, surgeons were able to repair three holes in his heart which means he no longer needs a heart transplant or the revolutionary rucksack he was fitted with three years ago to pump medication into his blood.

Reece is hoping doctors will give him the all-clear to go swimming on a family holiday in Torquay this summer.