The library plays a vibrant role in IB programmes. The role of the library is to support traditional literacy, information literacy, all subjects’ inquiry, students’ personal inquiry and research projects, and to celebrate special events and holidays.

While supporting inquiry, through integrating approaches to learning in IB programmes, the library helps students develop skills that have relevance across the curriculum and help them "learn how to learn".

The ATL skills for students are as follows:

- Social 

- Research 

- Thinking 

- Communication 

- Self-management 

Students acquire these skills not theoretically but through authentic actions. In Grade 1’s first unit of inquiry "how we organise ourselves", the students investigate into the unit to find answers to the question, developing these skills throughout the inquiry.

Students learn the basic layout and function of our library through visiting the library.

Through DIY their unique shelf markers, our students learn the basic library rules of Grade1 and how to check in and out books.

Through playing the scavenger hunt game, our students get to know our picture book collection, and practise using the shelf marker and put the books back to their own place after reading.

Through reading aloud Eric Carle’s classic piece of children literature Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?, our students inquire into different parts of a book and play the matching game.

After listening to Cai Lun: the Creator of Paper’s Story, watching a video about how to make elephant poo poo paper, our students are amazed at the process of making paper. Then they themselves experience how to make recycled paper, learn that we need to treasure paper and our books.

At last, our students use Eric Carle’s art of collage to DIY a handcraft card!

Inquiry is fun, and we acquire our skills naturally through playing!