Stig of the Dump: Using the book as a resource to teach the Stone Age to the Iron Age through Drama

Clive King's Stig of the Dump is now more than 50 years old, and yet it remains a children's classic. Following the adventures of Barney and Stig, a Stone Age man who lives in a quarry, the book is useful to inspire classroom drama work, and it can also be used to support learning in the Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age topic. It can be used as a fun and engaging starting point to encourage students to invest imaginatively in these periods of history.
This scheme should be followed after a classroom reading of the book has been completed. It contains a combination of games and drama exercises, alongside group discussions, which interweave the world of the book with the study of the subject. The scheme will sit neatly alongside a more traditional approach to teaching history, and also touches on the speaking, listening and group discussion and interaction objectives within KS2 English.