my gran

My gran

She has blue eyes and and soft warm hands and wrinkly skin that is soft . She loves to read books to me and my brother .She likes to play bored games with me like snake and ladders and she make godly food like her short bread and apple crumble . She goes to feed the chickens with me and my brother . She would come to my hockey games. We would go to collect the flax at the oak trees.

jean batten

Jean Batten

Jean Batten born in Rotorua 1909 and was famous for flying






She had 2 brothers and a dad who was a dentist .The Most important person to her was her Mum. When she was 5 she moved to Auckland, she went to Gray Lynn School . She sold her piano to go to London to get her flying licence .




October the 5 she flew from Europe to New zealand in 11 days and 45 minutes in 14 224 miles solo . he couldn't fly because of the ww2 war..Her mum died in the Canary Islands . When she was 73 died in the hotel in im and it is because she got bit by a dog