Welcome back to Term 3. I trust our school community had an opportunity to relax over the recent holiday period.  

It has been great to see our students back and ready to learn. Classrooms have been highly engaging with our students demonstrating learning behaviours from the first day.  

Semester 1 Data 

In recent data collected by our school from Semester 1 2025, it has been extremely pleasing to see growth in academic performance across our school setting, improvement in our daily attendance and a significant reduction in school disciplinary absences (suspensions) continue to occur. There has been significant improvement in our measure against similar or like schools across the state. I look forward to seeing the outcome of our strategic work continue to build momentum into Semester 2. 

This is inclusive of our commitment to: 

• Better and Brighter Every Day! 

• Well-Being & engagement 

• Culture and inclusion  

• Academic achievement 

• Calm classrooms, calm school 

• Celebrating the pride in our school. 

Prep – Year 2 Key results 

• 66.1% students receiving A-C in English (below expectation against like schools) 

• 32.2% students receiving A or B in English (below expectation against like schools) 

• 74.4% students receiving A-C in Mathematics (at expectation against like schools) 

• 32.2% students receiving and A or B in Mathematics (at expectation against like schools) 

• 85.4% attendance (at expectation with like schools) 

• Suspension rate at 1% (at expectation against like schools) 

Year 3-6 Key results 

• 72.2% students receiving A-C in English (at expectation against like schools – improvement gained) 

• 33% students receiving A or B in English (at expectation against like schools – improvement gained) 

• 79.5% students receiving A-C in Mathematics (at expectation-improvement gained) 

• 38.1% students receiving and A or B in Mathematics (at expectation against like schools – improvement gained) 

• 88% Attendance (at expectation against like schools – improvement gained) 

• Suspension rate at 6% (at expectation against like schools) 

As principal of our school, I am always proud of our work and the results we have observed particularly with massive gains in our Year 3-6 cohorts. I am extremely grateful for the dedication and commitment from our school staff for their role in this positive shift as well as the culture being demonstrated by our students towards their learning. I look forward to our continued growth on our journey to build a better and brighter Berserker. 

Curriculum letters 

Term 3 curriculum letters have been sent home with students from individual classes. These letters outline the focus for key learning areas, key information for the Term ahead and include assessment schedules. Thank you for checking your child’s bag for this important information.  

School Opinion Surveys – We want your feedback! 

This year’s School Opinion Survey runs from 28 July to 22 August 2025. Parents, caregivers and students are encouraged to participate. Your insights will help us know what our school does well and how we can improve. Participants will be emailed a link to access the survey the week before it opens. Survey responses are confidential. The survey usually takes less than 10 minutes to complete. Additional information was also emailed home earlier in the week to our families. More information can be found on the School Opinion Survey webpage or by contacting the school.  

Attendance 

We know that regular school attendance is a fundamental requirement for student learning and each school has an attendance strategy to support this belief. Here at Berserker Street State School, we provide a safe, supportive and engaging learning environment that encourages student attendance. 

We are obligated to know where all students are on a daily basis. Consecutive days of absence must also be reported, and we cannot presume your child is ill. If you receive a text, thank you for using this opportunity to inform us of your child’s illness or other reason they are absent from school. Alternatively, you can report your child’s absence prior to the text message by calling the school directly on (07) 4999 0333 by 10am. 

Students still need to stay home if they are ill and it is expected that parents will contact the school via a phone call/text message. This is then recorded as an explained absence. When the school is not contacted regarding a student absence this is considered an unexplained absence. 

Parents play a vital role in supporting their children to attend every day and we encourage you to reinforce with your child that Everyday Counts and discuss that days missed means learning has been missed.  

Our school can also assist parents if they are having difficulty ensuring your child attends school by supporting to remove barriers impacting your child attending. More information about this can be obtained by contacting us to discuss more. 

Bookfair:

Bookfair was a massive success this week with a total of $3621.30 in items sold. Thank you to everybody who purchased items. Every purchase provides our school the opportunity to raise funds to purchase books for our school library which came to a total of $1086 worth. This is also a great opportunity for our families to purchase books and promote literacy at home. A special thank you also goes to Mrs Karen Rogers for all her time and effort into organising and running a successful Book Fair.

Colour Explosion – Fun run

On Thursday 4th September our P&C will conduct the annual Colour Explosion Fun Run. This event has been extremely fun in the past and a great fundraiser for our school. All funds raised go to directly back to supporting the students at our school. Students also have the opportunity to select prizes for the appropriate level of fundraising they can do. Our school has set the target of raising $10 000.

Help our P&C fundraise today!

Rockhampton District Athletics:

Congratulations to the following students who will represent our school at next week’s Rockhampton district athletics carnival held Monday and Tuesday.

All the best to Logan W, Declan L, Rayne S, Febreze S, Mathias A & Theo C.

NAIDOC

Thursday 14th August, we will conduct our school-based NAIDOC celebration. Mr Mitchell our CEC has been working behind the scenes to organise a great day of events. The theme this year is The Next Generation: Strength, Vision & Legacy. We will have numerous community organisations joining us on the day as well as elders from across the community. Students will also have the opportunity to experience activities like traditional games, painting, storytelling and much more.

Nurse Practitioner appointments

Kerinda our school nurse practitioner has been busy with many families taking the opportunity to connect for bulk-billed medical check-ups, referrals and prescribed medication. Kerinda is here every Monday during the school term and you can book an

appointment by contacting the office. Kerinda can also offer First Nations Health Checks so be sure to contact the office to book your appointment today.

Upcoming Key Dates:

12th August: P&C Meeting

13th August: Instrumental music workshop

14th August: NAIDOC Celebrations

20th August: Book Week Dress Up Parade

20th August: Red Food Day – Parmi burger special

27th August: School Performance – It’s a mad world (school covering cost)

2nd & 3rd September: P&C Father’s Day Stall

4th September: P&C Colour Explosion – Fun run

5th September: Student Free Day – school will be closed to students.

12th September: PBL Celebration Day – Sport theme.

18th September: P&C School Disco

19th September: Last Day of Term 3

I hope you have a better & brighter day!

Ryan Gilmour

Principal

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.

Better & Brighter PBL Week 2&3 Focus – I keep our school clean and tidy

Unfortunately, we have seen an increase in rubbish around our school grounds. This fortnight we will be promoting a clean and tidy school environment inclusive of good hygiene.

• I know how to keep our school clean and tidy

• I help the environment – put my rubbish in bin / recycle

• I keep pathways and walkways clear of belongings (bags, lunchboxes)

• I pack up at the end of playtime (games in library, sports and sand pit equipment)

• My classroom is clean and tidy

• I am proud of my school.

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 2 collection has now completed with Term 3’s count starting today. This Term we have yellow berserker bucks worth 1 point and pink Berserker Bucks worth 5.

Term 3 PBL Better & Brighter Day – Sports Expo

Term 3 Gold reward – Mini-Olympics!

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 staff.

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 

Thank you to everyone who supported our annual Book Fair it was a huge success!  Our goal was to reach $3800 in sales and we nearly made it. The grand total was $3621.30!!  The 3 lucky winners of $20 worth of free Book Fair products was Kelsey 3E, Zendaya 3E and Heath 6F.  Look out for lots of new books coming to our library soon!

Berserker PCYC invites any new or current families to come and see us in A Block for any Before and After School Care needs for your children. If you would like to enrol, Natalie can be contacted on 0418 116 481 or by email at berserkerstsac@pcyc.org.au. We are open school days 6:30 – 8:30am and 2:45-6:00pm. You can also find us at the Breakfast club most mornings for a chat. At Berserker PCYC we offer children the opportunity to engage in different thing such as outdoor play, team games, cooking, craft and much more.