Nina Bawden's The Peppermint Pig: A look at the book through Drama

Nina Bawden's The Peppermint Pig won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1976, and has been considered a children's classic ever since. It is full of down-to-earth humour and gutsy realism and makes an ideal starting point for upper KS2 drama work.
This scheme examines some of the book's key episodes and themes, using drama to extend students' knowledge of the book as a whole. Students will gain experience of exploring facial expression and body language through tableaux work, and will create and sustain roles through improvised and devised scene exercises. They will participate in classroom discussion and debate, present their work in front of their peers, and be encouraged to comment constructively on the work of others. The scheme broadly covers the drama objectives of the KS2 National Curriculum.