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 10 – Finish strong

In the final week of Term 3 we intend to hold our students to our expectations right to the end! Every day of the term is a learning day and that the end of the term does not mean the end of learning. All classrooms have been continuing learning every day in week 10.  When finishing strong we promote to our students the following:

• Try your best
• Make the best choice
• Have fun – it’s the end of the term!
• Finish strong – be positive – be Better & Brighter

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.

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.