An eight-year-old Glen Innes boy is in a serious but stable condition at Westmead Children’s Hospital in Sydney after falling off a three metre high roof on Saturday.

Bryce Burey was playing with his brothers, cousins and friends at his grandparents house after competing in a soccer carnival earlier that day. At around 3pm he climbed on top of the garage roof to retrieve a ball when he stepped backward and fell head first through a skylight.

“These things happen,” Bryce’s father Ian Burey said from Westmead on Tuesday.

“He was just up there being a boy retrieving a toy.”

After landing on his head, Bryce initially got up and walked but soon collapsed into unconsciousness and was rushed to Glen Innes and District Hospital, where he was later airlifted to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead.

He suffered a fractured skull, forehead and eye socket and also has bruising on the brain.

“At this stage he is doing well. He came off life support yesterday (Monday) morning (after being on it for two days) and also came out of intensive care yesterday (Monday),” Mr Burey said.

“The staff have been excellent, they have been more than helpful from Glen Innes right through. There are still dental, reconstruction, trauma and neurologist teams that come through all the time, it’s unbelievable service here.”

Bryce has already received numerous cards and well wishes from family and friends but anyone who would like to do so can send greetings to him at The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead 2145.