In Year 3, children have been busy learning about kenning poetry.
Kennings were originally written in Old English or Old Norse. A kenning describes something familiar in an uncommon way, without using its name. The poem usually takes the form of a list – and each depiction of the object is two words. Sometimes a kenning can take the form of a puzzle poem.
Children used the context of their Stone Age to the Iron Age history unit to create a Stone Age kenning in our English lesson! The ideas from children were fabulous! They included: mammoth-slayer, fire-creator, pelt-wearer…
