Information skills
Information literacy is the key to successful information use by pupils, enabling them to develop locational and retrieval skills as well as skills of thinking, exploring, reflecting and assessing. The Library has a key role to play in the development of these skills and aims to work with individual Departments to promote effective use of Library resources and to encourage Stoics' independent learning throughout Stowe and beyond.
Classes are always welcomed into the Library to complement the work that they have done in the classroom and to enable them to widen their reading.
The Third Form (Year 9) have timetabled lessons in information skills in their first term at Stowe as part of the English syllabus. They receive general information on the use of the Library, an introduction to the Dewey system and a beginner's guide to research skills related to the retrieval, evaluation and use of information. These are developed as they return to the Library over the next two years to find resources to back up their academic studies and in the Sixth Form help is available to develop the more specific research skills relevant to their A level subjects.