Rest home resident Rose Jacob and primary school student Faith Schurink share a birthday, albeit 100 years apart.

Last month, the pair celebrated together with a morning tea at CHT Acacia Park rest home in Omokoroa.

At 106, Rose is exactly a century older than six-year-old Faith who is a student at Brookfield Primary School and the granddaughter of facility manager Megan Thorne.

Despite the considerable age difference between the two, it turns out the birthday girls have something more in common than just a shared birth date. Both enjoy a love of music and dancing.

Rose is the eldest resident at the home and has lived there for the past five years. She is a big fan of Scottish country dancing which she took up in the early 1950s and only gave up when she turned 95.

Faith's mum Rachel says her daughter also likes dancing, although with more of a ‘freestyle' technique and to songs like ‘7 Years' by Lukas Graham.

Rose's son Bill Jacob says his mother has always been a fitness fanatic.

'Whatever keep-fit classes were going, she would go to, including the gym. That kept her fit, and at about 80 she took up tap dancing with a Hamilton group,” he says.

Rose was active in athletics well into her later years, competing in various Masters Games where she won close to 20 medals for events like the 100m dash, 5km walk and indoor rowing.

She once appeared on television in a humorous skit for the John Campbell show where she was wheeled out onto the athletic track in a wheelchair before hopping up and running the 100m.

She has three children, 13 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren and 10 great-great grandchildren.

These days Rose's sight and hearing are fading a little but she still enjoys listening to her Scottish country music via a set of Bluetooth headphones through which Bill can play her songs from his tablet.

Faith was born in 2014 at Tauranga Hospital and attends Brookfield Primary School. She loved meeting Rose and was amazed that they were 100 years apart in age.

'It was truly a special moment they shared together,” rest home manager Megan says.

Rose and Faith also share their birthday with fellow music lover and artist Olivia Newton-John and tennis ace Serena Williams.