The Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) is an educator-designed, evidence-informed framework that equips teachers with practical tools to create classrooms where every student feels safe, engaged, and ready to learn. Grounded in 25 years of trauma-informed practice, positive psychology, and the science of learning, the Berry Street Education Model supports schools to build a consistent and predictable whole-school approach that benefits all students.

All staff at Derrimut Primary School have participated in extensive professional learning and training in the four domains of BSEM, which align with key child development capacities that each student must develop to be ready to learn. When considering how to best meet the needs of students, we focus on building self-regulation and relational capacity, and then nurturing wellbeing and a willingness to engage in learning.

Derrimut Primary School has aligned these strategies within the school’s SEL scope and sequence across all primary year levels. To find out more about how this approach is implemented to support every student across the school, please refer to the SEL Supports and Programs.