PBL News
PBL Lesson this week
PBL Focus – Celebrating Our Successes
Celebration of Learning – Whole Class Stamp Charts
We are excited to announce that our students have achieved an amazing milestone of 20 Whole Class Stamp Charts! ? This fantastic achievement reflects the effort, teamwork, and positive behaviour shown across our school.
To recognise and celebrate this success, students will enjoy an extended play session in Term 4, Week 2. Congratulations to all classes for their commitment to making positive choices every day – what a wonderful way to celebrate our learning journey together!
G.E.M. Focus – Kindness
This week in our Gratitude, Empathy, and Mindfulness (G.E.M.) program, students are exploring their favourite ways to practise mindfulness. They are encouraged to share their ideas with the class and plan a time to enjoy one of these calming activities together. Mindfulness helps students slow down, focus on the present moment, and manage their emotions in positive ways. By practising mindfulness regularly, our students are building skills that support their wellbeing, learning, and relationships.
Whole Class Stamp Charts
Congratulations to everyone that has completed their Whole Class Stamp Charts throughout Term 3!!!!
Your hard work and teamwork have helped bring our school total to 20 completed charts. What an incredible effort from everyone – We will be having extended play in Week 2 of Term 4 as our celebration!
The Biggest Catch
This week in the biggest catch, 2C, 2B, 5B and Prep B, and 5A have filled the most Individual Stamp Charts. Congratulations!!!
It’s our way of celebrating how many individual stamp charts each class completes.
Think of each filled chart as a part of a fish—the more completed charts, the bigger the fish will be.
At Calliope State School we all swim together.
Celebrating Positive Behaviour at Calliope State School
Our students continue to shine through their positive choices! By the end of Week 9, Term 3 2025, we have recorded an incredible 831 positive behaviour acknowledgements, up from 505 at the same point last year.
So far this term, we have celebrated students with 151 awards (including Teacher Aide Certificates, Cool Kid Certificates, Classroom Cool Kid Awards, and the Principal’s Award), 93 mentions in the Good Newsletter, and 3 positive contacts home through emails, phone calls, or e-postcards.
These numbers reflect the consistent effort of our students to live out our school values and support each other in creating a positive, respectful, and successful school community. Well done, everyone! ?
Calliope Collectables
Staff members will be handing out Calliope Collectable Cards when they see Safe, Respectful and Responsible behaviours outside of the classroom. The cards are business card size and are unique to our school, featuring students and members of our school community. They will be handed out for not only our weekly Positive Behaviour for Learning focus, but all of our expectations for student behaviour.
Staff members will be looking for students displaying our expectations. They will write the student name on the back of a collector card and tick whether they were safe, respectful or responsible. They will use “descriptive encouraging” to explain to the student why they earned the card. The image that the student receives will depend on what the teacher has available. Each card may be acquired for displaying any of our PBL behaviours.
Two new cards will be released each week until all 18 cards have been handed out. Also, look out for the “wild cards” which will be distributed by the leadership team.
To collect the cards, each student will be given a business card display folder to proudly present their collections.
Remind your children that we are Safe, Respectful and Responsible at school in Term 4 and go get them all!
Check out the Calliope Collectables Promotional Trailer on our Facebook site.