Welcome to our page where you can find out about what we're learning and see pictures of some of our highlights. 

In our class we are all unique and individual characters.

With support from Mrs Thomas and Mrs Vinton, we practise using our recipe for learning every day -  

A cup of curiosity

1 tbsp of self-care skills

A scoop of confidence

1 tsp of listening

1 tsp of resilience 

A cup of communication 

An inkling of independence

Please keep popping back to our page to see how we apply this recipe independently each week.

There is also a section below where you can find links to excellent learning resources that you can use with your child at home.

Cricket Taster Session 11th March 2025

We did brilliantly and had so much fun when the coach from Durham Cricket Foundation came to visit to teach us the basics of how to play cricket. Cricket is a great game for developing physical fitness, improving teamwork, and enhancing motor skills, and both the winning and losing teams demonstrated a high level of sportsmanship. Well done Year 1KT! 

Week beginning 3rd March 2025

We've had a great week in Year 1 this week, on top of our visit to Beamish Museum on Thursday (see below) we also went to Gateshead library where we listened to a story and then drew a picture of our favourite books. We finished our visit by choosing a book to borrow for our classroom. We've already started enjoying them in class! 

On Friday we celebrated World Book Day by listening to Paddington by Michael Bond, our author of the term. We also made bookmarks to bring home, wrote some brilliant book reviews, some of the children took part in a book swap, and we all loved doing a World Book Day quiz, and had lots of fun guessing the Masked Reader! 

Pupils of the Week 7th March 2025

We were so excited to celebrate our THREE pupils of the week this week! Elio was chosen for putting a huge amount of effort into improving his letter formation. His attitude to everything he does is fantastic! Niki was chosen showing resilience when learning about time, trying so hard and not giving up when learning how to tell and draw o'clock and half past times. Theo was awarded Pupil of the Week for making amazing progress in all areas. We have been blown away by how brilliantly he's doing. Well done Theo, Niki, and Elio. We are so proud of you all. 

Trip to Beamish Museum 6th March 2025

What a wonderful day we've had at Beamish Museum! We enjoyed visiting the houses and the school in the pit village. After there, we explored the 1950s houses and the police station! We spent some time in the 1950s park after our packed lunch and then we took part in the 'Our childhood toys' workshop and got to play with toys from the 1950s! It was so much fun! 

Week beginning 17th February 2025

We've had a brilliant last week of the half term; we loved exploring how to make Art by manipulating paper and card into 3D shapes in our 'Paper Play' art unit inspired by Samantha Stephenson and Louise Bougeois. 

In computing we used the laptops to make a list of equipment and design a rocket to the moon - we have great fun! 

We also had a visit from Nikki and Vicky from Equans, who showed us some of the careers that are available in the construction industry! Can you spot our brick layer, quantity surveyor and site manager? 

On Friday we had a lovely visit from our Secret Reader, Elio's mum Barbara! She read us a beautiful story by Marianne Dubuc, Up the Mountain Path. Thank you so much for your time, Barbara. The children really enjoyed having you visit! 

Well done to our half term book vending machine winners - Daiva (for a brilliant book review), Theo (for his exceptional reading and progress this half term), and Farhan (for his brilliant work on Reading Eggs this half term)! We hope you enjoy reading your new books! 

Week beginning 10th February 2025

What a week we've had! We have been absolute superstars, dividing by sharing in Maths, looking at the Jewish practice of Mitzvah in R.E., and exploring how we measure wind in Science, making our own wind socks! We then used them to measure the wind using the Beaufort Scale! 

In forest school we continued to explore our senses by doing a blind-folded rope walk - we discovered that we could use our senses of hearing and touch to move around when we weren't able to see, but all agreed that our sense of sight is really useful in keeping us safe as we move around in our environment. 

We ended the day with a surprise fun day, where we have enjoyed ice cream, a visit to the tuck shop, made Valentines' Day cards for our loved ones, coloured in, played games, and even had a mini 'slumber party'. Hopefully we'll all sleep well tonight! 

Week beginning 3rd February 2025

In Science this week we have continued our unit 'Animals including humans' by exploring our senses. We discovered that we can't read a book with our eyes covered, we can hear different sounds and differentiate between different volumes, and that we can touch using our skin - not just our fingers! 

In English we have started to work towards a recount of our trip to Safety Works. We used to iPads to act as journalists and interviewed our partners to help us to recall information about what happened on the trip! 

Pupils of the Week 7th February 2025

A huge well done to Maya and Rosa. Maya was chosen for being such a brave superstar in an emergency situation; we are all so proud of the maturity she showed. Rosa has had a brilliant could of weeks at Brighton Avenue. She has settled in so well and we love having her as part of our class, and school. 

Week beginning 27th January 2025

We were lucky enough to enjoy a 'Naval Architect' workshop with Melissa from NUSTEM this week. We all had a huge amount of fun and learned a lot! All of the children ended the workshop having shown the three main characteristics needed to be a Naval Architect - Patience, Curiosity and Creativity. Lots of them have shown interest in becoming a Naval Architect when they are older! 

For more information about what they did during the workshop, and for more activities you can try at home, please see NUSTEM's website at NUSTEM Naval Architect Web Page (Please note this is an external website and is not associated with Brighton Avenue Primary School) 

Week beginning 20th January 2025

We have loved learning about the human body in Science this week. We drew around Theo and then labelled his body parts - didn't we do a great job?! 

In Music Mr Parkin has been teaching us to use different instruments and we have learned a song, called 'Gong Hei Fat Choy' for Chinese New Year, which is next week. 

Pupils of the week 24th January 2025

Well done to Sylvester and Aylan, our Pupils of the Week. We love Aylan's enthusiasm for his learning, he always has so much energy when sharing his knowledge and this makes us smile every day. Sylvester is a Year 1 writing superstar! He is making lots of progress in his writing, with super neat letter formation and brilliant content. Well done Sylvester and Aylan!

Week beginning 13th January 2025

It was lovely to enjoy some sunshine in forest school this week. It was a joy to watch the children fully engaged in collaborative play. They were great at taking turns, completing their own chosen tasks in groups, and helping each other out. In addition, Mrs Thomas especially enjoyed the mud cakes that some of the children made - yum! 

Week beginning 6th January 2025

The children have been brilliant this week, after 2 weeks off they have got straight back into their learning! In English we are focusing on Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Mara Alperin. This week we have worked hard to build a bank of adjectives that we can use to write a character description of Goldilocks next week. 

In Maths we have been practising place value, making sure that we really understand how numbers are partitioned into tens and ones to give us a greater understanding of what numerals actually mean. 

We had an excellent visit to Safety Works! this week. We learned how to cross a road safely, using 'Stop, Look, Listen, Think', we learned about Fire Safety and the different parts of a fire fighter's uniform, we had a volunteer from the RNLI talk to us about how to stay safe on open water, and finally we learnt about Railway and Metro Safety. It was brilliant, we all learnt lots and our behaviour was amazing throughout - Mrs Thomas and Mrs Vinton were so proud. 

Pupils of the Week 10th January 2025

Well done to Farhan and Daiva, who've both had brilliant weeks this week! Daiva was chosen to be Pupil of the Week because her attitude to learning has been brilliant, she's been trying hard, listening to instructions and putting her hand up during class discussions which is brilliant! Farhan was chosen for his work in Read, Write, Inc. He's had a brilliant attitude and has been trying really hard to improve his presentation and we are looking forward to this continuing! Keep up the good work Farhan and Daiva! 

Week beginning 16th December 2024

Year 1 have had a wonderful last week of the term celebrating together and having lots of fun with our friends! We had our Christmas party, and even saw Santa! 

On Friday Layla, Daisy, Rosie and Gabi took part in Brighton's Got Talent 2024! They did themselves and us so proud with their ballet dance to the Nutcracker's Sugar Plum Fairy - they were OUTSTANDING! Well done girls! 

We hope you all have a wonderful couple of weeks with your families and can't wait to see each other again in the New Year! 

Week beginning 9th December 2024

We had a wonderful morning for our Stay and Play session on Friday. It was lovely to see so many parents were able to make it, and the cards and calendars you all made looked amazing! We can't wait to do another Stay and Play session in the future and thank you all for coming and making it so special. 

We have also completed our Design Technology Textiles Unit - Making Puppets. We explored joining techniques, designed and used a template to help us to cut out our design. Our finished products were brilliant! 

Week beginning 2nd December 2024

This week we have been learning about personal hygiene in PSHE + C and we learned the correct technique for washing our hands. We experimented using pepper, water and soap (the pepper represented the germs!). We discovered that the germs don't like soap as when we stuck our soapy finger into the pepper and water, the pepper moved away from the soap!

In Science we continued learning about animals including humans. This week we explored animal diets and sorted animals in to groups based on whether they eat meat, plants or both. We learned some tricky vocabulary; carnivores eat meat, herbivores eat plants and omnivores eat both.

In English we have started a close study of 'Treasures' by Clare Bevan. We learnt parts of the poem and worked together to recite the whole poem as a class - we were amazing! We also practised reciting nursery rhymes in a group, and did brilliantly! 

Pupils of the Week 6th December 2024

Well done Remy and Aleena. Aleena has had a great start to her life at Brighton Avenue; she's settled in so well and we are very happy to have her in our Year 1 class. Remy has been a great friend over the last couple of weeks, sharing and showing kindness, which is lovely to see! Keep it up Aleena and Remy!

Week beginning 25th November 2024

In RE this week we have continued our unit on why Christmas is important to Christians by thinking about things that we are grateful for, as many Christians are grateful around this time of year. In History we looked at the life of Captain Sir Tom Moore and the reason that he is remembered today. 

On Thursday afternoon we spent time making decorations and putting them around the classroom; we had so much fun dancing and singing with our friends! 

Week beginning 18th November 2024

We started the week with an exciting visit from author Adeola Sokunbi, who talked to us about her books 'Destiny Ink'. She was so interesting! 

For Wellbeing Wednesday we 'took notice' of Road Safety Week and learned how to safely cross a road - STOP, LOOK, LISTEN, THINK! And that we must always hold our grown up's hands when crossing the road, even when we think it is safe. 

On Friday we have enjoyed STEAM day where we were challenged to design and make our own windmill, with moving sails attached to a stable structure so that it would stand on its own! We're sure that you are all very impressed with our end results! 

Pupil of the Week 22nd November 2024

Well done to Jayden and Meghan, our Pupils of the Week! Jayden has impressed us SO MUCH with his sentence writing in English. He has been including adjectives brilliantly and is a real Year 1 writer! Meghan always does great work in foundation subjects and impressed us in particular in History learning about the events leading up to the Gunpowder Plot! Well done Meghan and Jayden! 

Week beginning 11th November 2024

We've had a super busy week this week! In Maths we have been exploring division by sharing. We did a great job!

In our Wellbeing Wednesday sessions this half term our theme is 'Take Notice' and this week we linked our theme with Anti-Bullying week, learning about what we can do to 'Choose Respect'. 

On Friday we celebrated Children In Need day and had lots of fun colouring and learning about why we have Children in Need day! 

Pupils of the Week 15th November 2024

Well done to Frankie and Layla this week! Frankie was chosen for brilliant work in Maths - he is absolutely flying and loves to challenge himself with Maths work in his continuous provision time. Layla has had a fantastic attitude towards her learning over the past couple of week. She has really impressed us with how hard she has worked. Keep it up Layla and Frankie! 

Week beginning 4th November 2024.

What a brilliant start to the new half term we've had!  In English our focus text is The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Mara Alperin.  We have been recognising how capital letters, spaces and full stops are used in sentences, looked at images of trolls to develop our use of adjectives to add descriptive information. We really impressed Mrs Thomas and Mrs Vinton with our use of capital letters, spaces, full stops and adjectives in our own writing later in the week! 

In Science this half term our topic is 'Animals including Humans'. This week we sorted animals into categories, and explored the features of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians. 

Pupil of the Week 8th November 2024.

Well done to our Pupils of the week this week - Camila for her brilliant attitude to her learning, always showing resilience when things are tricky for her, and never failing to spread her contagious smile to everyone around her, and Yusuf for making brilliant progress in Read, Write, inc. He's doing great at remembering the sounds he's been taught, and being able to read and write using those sounds. Yusuf always tries so hard and it's really showing in his learning! Well done Yusuf and Camila! 

Week beginning 21st October 2024

We've had another busy week for our last week of the half term!

In Art our theme was 'Colour Splash'. We loved exploring primary colours and how to make secondary colours from them using play doh, crayons, paint, and tissue paper. We also used lego to print paint to make a pattern, and decorated plates inspired by the work of Clarice Cliff, who started to make and decorate pottery when she was just 13 years old!  We used different techniques, such as paint blowing to make a tree, to make our own versions of Clarice Cliff's famous design, "Circle Tree". Don't our plates look fantastic?!

We had lots of fun in our computing unit on improving mouse skills, where we have learnt new skills such as how to click and drag, how to draw lines and shapes,  and how to insert clipart pictures to make a story - we all did a great job at recreating a scene from Three Little Pigs! 

Week beginning 14th October 2024

We have been working extremely hard in Maths this week, writing number sentences and fact families to match part-whole models! In English we have been reading the Rainbow Fish, sequencing the story, and making some brilliant inferences. 

In Science we have continued looking at plants, this week we have sorted plants into the parts that we eat, looking at different fruits and vegetables and learning which part of plants they are!

In RE we finished our unit on how Christians believe the world began by looking at special artifacts that some Christians use to help them when following their faith. 

On Thursday we had a successful visit to Gateshead Library. We were so well behaved, Mrs Thomas and Mrs Vinton are so proud of us all! We listened to a story, took part in a scavenger hunt and learned how to check out books - we have brought some books back to school and we can't wait to share them with each other over the coming weeks! 

Pupil of the Week 18th October 2024

We have been blown away by Theo and Daiva lately. Theo has been making a real effort to contribute more in whole class discussions. His increased confidence is a joy to see, and Davia has tried so hard to stay focused and has had a really positive attitude all week! Well done Daiva and Theo! 

Week beginning 7th October 2024

Our unit in Science this half term is 'Plants' and this week the children explored real flowering plants to investigate their parts. They were so gentle and used brilliant observation skills to find the different parts. 

In RE we continued our unit on Christianity, looking at how Christians believe that God created everyone to be unique. The children brought in baby photos and found that even when they were younger, they were unique and had some of the same features they had now - they then thought about how they have grown. The children enjoyed printing their thumbprints and looking at the differences between theirs and their friends'! 

Pupils of the Week 11th October 2024. 

We are so proud of the brilliant Bora and Maya! Bora was a shining example in the KS1 Indoor Athletics Festival, he used fantastic listening skills to follow instructions that the coaches gave, and tried his best on all of the activities that he was set! 

Maya is a Maths superstar, she has really impressed us with how hard she works in every lesson! Well done Maya and Bora! 

Week beginning 30th September 2024

This week in Maths we have been counting in 10s! The children did a great job at counting out the dienes to give the correct amount in 10s! Well done Year 1KT!

Some of our children went to Gateshead Stadium this week to represent the school in the KS1 Indoor Athletics Festival! Mrs Vinton and Lee were so impressed with their behaviour - they were superstar listeners and tried their best. We are all so proud! 

Pupils of the Week 4th October 2024 

Blake and Gabi were our amazing Pupils of the Week this week. Gabi was chosen for her brilliant work in Maths. She always tries her best and has a great attitude to her learning. Blake has made fantastic effort, and progress, with his reading since he joined Year 1. We are so impressed every time we read with him - and he's flying on Reading Eggs! Well done Gabi and Blake! 

Week beginning 23rd September 2024

We have celebrated European Languages Day today by learning the numbers from 1 to 10 in Spanish! Aren't we brilliant?!

In Geography this week we have continued our 'What is the Geography of where I live?" unit by looking at where in the world some of the children's families come from, and where we live. We had a great discussion around this! 

Pupils of the Week 27th September 2024

Our fantastic Pupils of the Week for this week are Layla R and Mard!

Mard was chosen for his brilliant work on place value with numbers within 10 in Maths. We have been so impressed with how he has applied his learning. Layla was chosen for her presentation in her books, she always takes such care and her attitude towards her learning makes her an absolute dream to teach. Well done Layla and Mard! 

Week beginning 16th September 2024

We have been non-stop in Year 1 this week! We walked to Saltwell Park to explore our local area for our first Geography unit "The Geography of where I live". The children were brilliant at talking about the things that they had seen on the walk with each other! You should be very proud of their behaviour on the trip; a woman at the park even approached staff to tell us that she'd noticed how well behaved the children were when they were playing in the play area. We were bursting with pride! Well done Year 1! 

For Well Being Wednesday we'll be exploring a different step of '5 Ways to Wellbeing' each half term and this half term our theme is 'Discover'. Research shows that learning new skills can improve your mental wellbeing by boosting self-confidence and raising self esteem! This week we discovered more about First Aid to celebrate National First Aid Day! We learned how to apply a plaster, what they are used for and what we should do in different first aid situations.  The children then took their learning into our continuous provision, providing first aid to each other and creating their own first aid kit!

Pupil of the Week 20th September 2024

We are very proud of Adam and Daisy, our Pupils of the Week! Daisy was chosen for her outstanding attitude to her learning. She's always trying her best, putting her hand up to answer questions, and always focuses 100% on what she's been asked to do. She really is a pleasure to have in class every day! Adam has had a great start to life in our school and his new class. He's making friends already and it's such a joy to see his smiling face coming into school each morning. Well done Daisy and Adam! 

Week beginning 9th September 2024

We've had a busy week in Year 1 this week, completing our first Art unit "Making Marks". The children have worked hard to perfect their observation skills, using the artwork of Bridget Riley, famous for her use of lines to create op-art, as their inspiration. We are so proud of how well they have worked. 

In computing we talked about what the internet is and how the children can stay safe when they are online. They were great at knowing that they need to tell a trusted grown up if anything worries them or seems unusual when they are online. 

Pupil of the Week 13th September 2024

Our very first pupils of the week were Bluebell and Sophie. Bluebell was chosen for her resilience and making a super start to her new class, we are so lucky to have her and know she's going to be a Year 1 superstar! Sophie was chosen for her outstanding observation skills in art, using lines to add texture to her drawing. We can't wait to see what she will achieve in the other subjects in Year 1! What a great start both girls have both had! Well done Sophie and Bluebell! 

Week beginning 5th September 2024

Wow! What a first couple of days we have had in Year 1! Your children have settled in brilliantly into their new class and we've loved getting to know them a little better. We can't wait for the year ahead with them!

We have elected our School Council representatives for the class, Blake and Daisy. We know that they are going to be brilliant spokespeople for Y1KT. Well done Daisy and Blake, we are looking forward to finding out how you will help the school become even better than it is in the year ahead. 

We have also chosen our Reading Champions, who will help promote reading across the whole school, Lyla R and Elio! We have been so impressed with Elio and Lyla R, who have already showed their love of reading in class, and we know you'll both do a great job!