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 Week 8&9 – We are learners – I am ready to learn I try my best!

With assessment demands picking up across the school the PBL team felt it was a great time to focus on our expectation of We are learners!

· I know what ready to learn looks like

· I do my work to the best of my ability!

· I try my best!!!! I have a red-hot go!

· I actively participate in my learning – I try hard.

· I ask for help when I’m having difficulty.

· I am respectful of our learning environment

· I am brave!

· I ask for a challenge if the work is too easy.

· I share my ideas with my classmates and teacher.

· I ask for help when I need it.

· I am a positive member of our classroom

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. Term 3 collection has now closed as of today with Term 4 count already underway . This Term we have red Berserker bucks worth 1 point and Silver Berserker Bucks worth 5.

Term 3 PBL Better & Brighter Day – Sports Expo

Term 3 Gold reward – Mini-Olympics!

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.