Central Library

The school library is central to learning and plays a key role as a place for encouraging innovation, curiosity, and problem solving. Central Library is a catalyst for literacy and reading and for teaching and scaffolding inquiry learning.

Maharishi Arvind School Library makes a difference to students’ understanding and achievement and provide support for teaching and learning throughout the school. The school library is an important part of the school community and reflects the advancement of the community.

Maharishi Arvind School Library plays a key role in the cultural and social life of the school. It can be a central point for engagement with all kinds of reading, cultural activities, access to information, knowledge building, deep thinking and lively discussion.

School library programs and services seek to:

Create and develop motivating, flexible physical and digital learning spaces.

Run independent learning programs, which integrate information resources and technologies.

Equip students with the skills necessary to succeed in a constantly changing technological, social and economic environment.

Collaborate with classroom teachers to plan, implement and evaluate inquiry-based programs that will ensure students acquire skills to collect, critically analyse and organise information, problem-solve and communicate their findings.

Provide and promote quality fiction to develop and sustain in students the habit and enjoyment of reading for pleasure and to enrich students' intellectual, aesthetic, cultural and emotional growth.

Cater for differences in learning and teaching styles through the provision of, and equality of access to, a wide range of curriculum resources - fiction and non-fiction, digital, print, audio and video.

Provide teachers with access to relevant curriculum information and professional development materials within and outside the school; and opportunities to cooperatively plan, implement and evaluate learning programs.