Welcome to Pear Class

In Pear Class, our learners are on the Explorer Pathway designed specifically for learners with Complex Needs.  We follow the informal curriculum that encourages each learner to master their skills through the development of independence, fluency, maintenance and generalisation.

Each learner has a personalised learning goal for each of our four curriculum areas; Communication and interaction, Cognition and learning (including Environmental Control Technology), Social, Emotional and Mental health, and Physical, Sensory and Independence.

Each term, we have a topic focus to ensure a breadth of engaging learning experiences, this term our topic is ‘Elmer’, with lots of sensory activities around the Elmer story linked to friendships, colours and elephants.

Autumn One Learning Showcase
 

We hope you enjoying seeing some snapshots of our learning experiences in Pear Class during our Autumn one term 2024
 

In Autumn one, our story focus was 'Elmer the Elephant'. Our learners enjoyed exploring our Sensory Story and making choices to show their likes and dislikes. In our Ready for Life session, our learners had experienced linked to where elephants live through hands-on messy play, they particularly enjoyed the muddy cornflour. 

We are really proud of our class contribution to the Brooke School Art Exhibition. Our learners applied lots of skills including grasping, making choices and pressing switches in Environmental Control Technology to create collaborative colourful art based on our story.

Autumn Two Learning Showcase

We hope you enjoying seeing some snapshots of our learning experiences in Pear Class during our Autumn two term 2024 

Our story this term in Pear Class has been The Enormous Turnip. We explored ways to engage in this traditional tale through vocalising to our friends and pulling the turnip out together. In our My Place in the World Session, we have explored planting and growing, decorating our window with ‘sprout houses’ to grow cress and lettuce.

Spring One Learning Showcase
 

We hope you enjoying seeing some snapshots of our learning experiences in Pear Class during our Spring one term 2025

Our story this term in Pear Class has been The Magic Train Ride. Our learners have been exploring different sensory environments linked to the placed visited in the story. In our My Creativity sessions, we have explored the fast and slow pace within the story, as well as some environmental sounds including train whistle, animal sounds and space sounds. The learners have worked together on collaborative process art to create a window display of the story.

Spring Two Learning Showcase

We hope you enjoying seeing some snapshots of our learning experiences in Pear Class during our Spring Two term 2025

We explored the sensory experience of making different pancakes by looking, listening, smelling, feeling, and tasting different ingredients, pancakes and toppings. Through sensory stories like 'Croc's Cooking Day' and 'Pancake Day, Stancake day', we learned the steps of following a recipe, sorted toppings, and picked our favourites. In our sensory cooking session, we applied all of these skills in the Food Technology Room to mix, make, and explore real pancakes. This term for Book Week, we explored the sensory story of The Gruffalo. 

Summer One Learning Showcase

We hope you enjoying seeing some snapshots of our learning experiences in Pear Class during our Summer One term 2025

This term in Pear Class, we have been exploring different cultures through the sensory story Handa's Surprise. We have had experiences of music, fruit and sensory cooking that are familiar and different. In our My Place in the World session, we have introduced the concept of climate zones by exploring the sensory features of hot and cold places; making sensory maps, exploring in hot and cold in messy play,  and engaging in Forest School activities around hot and cold exploration.