Welcome back to our final Term for 2025. It has been extremely pleasing to see our students engaged and classrooms offering highly appealing lessons to begin the term.  

Students will be bringing home curriculum letters with an outline of what will be taught this term, key information that relates to each class and an assessment schedule to assist families with further understanding of what’s happening with your child’s learning. Keep an eye out on bags for this important information. 

Term 4 is always extremely busy, and I thank our community for taking the time to stay informed with lots of events occurring throughout the term as we move towards the conclusion of another school year. 

Better & Brighter Carnival 

Our P&C will be holding our 2025 Better and Brighter Carnival on Saturday 25th October from 4pm-8:00pm The event will be held at our Stadium, Top oval and surrounding areas with access from Charles Street.  

Come and join us for a fun filled night for the whole family. Rides, food options, heaps of market stalls and lots of novelty activities will all be available as we celebrate our whole school community as we continue to build a Better & Brighter Berserker!  

We will also have a fireworks display this year thanks to the support of the Frenchville Sports Club offering sponsorship towards this entertainment for our school community. 

We are certain it will be bigger than last year! We look forward to seeing you come along to support our school. 

It’s not too late to come along and lend a hand or help our dedicated P&C on the night even if it is for half an hour this would be greatly appreciated. 

Tuckshop 

On the holidays our tuckshop was targeted in a break and enter which was inclusive of an arson attack. We were extremely fortunate that the damage was minor in perspective of our school site. Unfortunately, the tuckshop was significantly impacted by fire and smoke damage.  The P&C are working behind the scenes alongside the school to rectify replacement of appliances, stock and restoration of the tuckshop itself. This will take time, and we thank you for your patience, flexibility and ongoing support as we work towards rectifying this issue. The tuckshop remains operational from the Stadium kitchen and ongoing support from our community is vital during this difficult time. A massive thank you goes out to our P&C who have worked tirelessly behind the scenes to overcome this obstacle.  

2026 Prep Enrolment & Transition 

Our enrolment process for Prep 2026 has begun. We would like to welcome any children who were born between the 1st July, 2020 to 30th June, 2021. If your child was born in this time, they are required to start Prep next year.  

In Queensland, Prep is a compulsory year of schooling and will provide the foundation for your child’s education. It is important that we enrol students for Prep 2026 as early as possible, as this will enable us to plan for next year. There will be a series of transition sessions planned for our new students, these will include important information for starting school and will also play an important role in preparing your child for Prep.  

These transition sessions will be held on: 

- 29th October (9am-10am) 

- 5th November (9am-10am) 

- 12th November (9am-10am) 

- 19th November (9am-10am) 

If you have a child who is starting Prep in 2026, please contact the office on 4999 0333 for an enrolment pack and we will be in touch to book an enrolment interview. Alternatively, please call the office to book.  

2026 Prep enrolments completed by Wednesday 19th November will be eligible for a free uniform pack inclusive of a school shirt and hat valued at $50.  

We look forward to meeting with you soon. 

School Opinion Survey Data: 

Our 2025 School Opinion survey report was received this week and was again full of positive feedback. This is inclusive of student, parent and staff voice with an increase in participation in all 3 groups and a total of 167 responses received (52 parents; 73 Yr 5&6 students; 42 staff) 

It is pleasing to note that we are averaging well above 80% satisfaction or higher in all concepts for all stakeholders. Our data sets also average above the trend of similar school type, CQ region and the state across the board.  

Highlights from the report with common items and concepts: 

Berserker Street SS will continue to be a PBL school in 2025. This will allow us to continue to explicitly teach and reward positive behaviour for learning with a whole school approach. Each week our students are taught a school wide lesson on a particular focus. 

Our school expectations are: 

• We are safe 
• We are respectful
• We are responsible
• We are learners.

PBL Focus: Term 4 Week 1 & 2 - I follow school rules and expectations 

Expectations:  

• We are safe.  

• We are respectful.  

• We are responsible.  

• We are learners. 

Rules/Common language across our school:  

• Right place, right time!  

• Hands off! Feet off!  

• School talk!  

• Respond correctly when directed by adults.  

• Ready to learn!  

• No hat – No play!  

• Calm classrooms, Calm school. 

• Use the Berserker 5. 

PBL Focus: Term 4 Week 3 & 4 – I am sun safe! 

With weather beginning to warm up we focus on students being sun safe.  

This is inclusive of: 

• wear a hat 

• Drinking water 

• Choosing a cool play area (Stadium, Library) 

• Wearing appropriate clothing (no jumpers) 

• Seeking shade when hot 

• Use the Berserker 5 if hot and bothered.  

Berserker Bucks 

Students are rewarded for positive behaviour choices with our whole school universal rewards known as Berserker Bucks. Each term students have the opportunity to reach Berserker Bucks milestones with incentives on our rewards day for those who reach our Gold benchmark. Berserker Bucks will change colour each term and this year we have raised the bar with our students blowing expectations out of the water last year. Each Term students who receive their gold award will be eligible to participate in a better and brighter event. The Term 4 count already underway and students need to earn 20 Berserker Bucks every week of our collection to stay on track. In Term 4 our collection has red Berserker Bucks worth 1 point and Silver Berserker Bucks worth 5.  

Term 4 PBL Gold – P-Y2 Kershaw Gardens Excursion and Y3-6 Northside pool excursion. (Costs covered by school) 

Platinum award (Gold every Term) – Excursion to the movies (Costs covered by school) 

Bronze – 100 Berserker Bucks 

Silver – 150 Berserker Bucks 

Gold – 200 Berserker Bucks 

A platinum award is presented to students at the end of Term 4 for those students who have received their Gold award in every term of the school year. This year our Platinum award will consist of an excursion to the movies with the cost covered by the school.  

Children can also earn extra Berserker Bucks by using our school wide focus word of the week on Wednesday and Friday with school leadership and every day with teachers and teacher aides.  

To promote further incentive the highest earning student in each cohort will be invited to a pizza party with the principal.  

Week 1 

Week 2