Library

The Mallinson Library opened in 2012.  It boasts both ultra-modern facilities and an old-fashioned reverence for learning. The library, which is staffed by two full-time librarians, is a place for serious study: for reading, research and learning. Its goals are to support students’ learning, to encourage wider reading and to foster scholarship which we encourage students to think of as an attitude of mind and not a description of intelligence.

The library offers a full range of fiction and non-fiction in both traditional printed and electronic forms. Indeed, the electronic library is a fantastically well-resourced facility with a host of subscription resources for students to use to support their research and learning. Additionally, the library is kitted out with innovative technology such as interactive screens, iPads and slates.

The library provides an obvious context for the Wellington community to be intellectually curious: to think more, to read more and to discuss more. It offers a number of different spaces for working, including 8 ‘pods’, named after the 8 aptitudes. This holistic model of education, inspired by Howard Gardner’s work on Multiple Intelligences, is in the building’s DNA. The pods allow teachers and students to work in different ways within the same building: the design allows rigorous debate to co-exist with silent study.

The library is a place for serious research. In the sixth form, for example, all students complete an extended dissertation: those studying the IB Diploma write an Extended Essay; A level students complete an Extended Project Qualification. This challenging piece of individual research requires students to work closely with an academic supervisor and with the librarians and to develop the skills to work independently. The library provides the context, the resources and the support for these research projects.

Reading, learning, writing, thinking, debating: these are the characteristics of a scholarly school. The Mallinson Library gives our current cohort of students the very best opportunity to embrace scholarship and the life of the mind and to provide them with the tools for learning and plenty of reading material as they prepare for university and life beyond Wellington.

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