Pip Davenport

I did my Literacy sats test yesterday, and we had a test with Pip Davenport. He was a young boy who helped his Uncle Henry study rides at the fairground.



Pip Davenport is a fictional character used for national curriculum tests. In the 2008 literacy longer writing test he was a man who invented victorian fairground rides with his uncle henry.


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Pip Davenport was an fairground ride inventor who lived from 1850 - 1920. He was married to a lady called Hettie and grew up in Slewsbury. No body had heard of him until he cropped up in a years 6 SATs test, where you had to make up and write a biography about him using only some vague details given to you.


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After his 'guest appearance' on the English writing SATs last week, it seems that Pip Davenport is working hard on creating a bit of publicity for himself!


The 19th century fairground ride inventor was the subject of the biography the Year Six children were asked to write in the long writing paper. Now, somebody has created a Facebook page for him! Ironically, he has joined the "It's Time to Stop SATs" group!


http://yearsixteacher.blogspot.com/2008/05/pip-davenport-on-facebook.html