Reading Culture @ AIPS

Discover how AIPS builds a love of reading in students through silent reading, author meet-and-greets, charity book drives, and more.

Last updated 2 July 2026

Reading Culture @ AIPS

To build a pervasive reading culture and develop positive life-long reading habits in our students, the school has in place various initiatives to nurture children who love reading.

1. Sustained Silent Reading, Extensive Reading and Library Periods Students are given the time to read for pleasure in class and in the school library and have access to a wide range of popular hard copy books and e-books. E-books also provide beginning readers with support through its ‘Read To Me’ function.

Students reading e-books:

Several young students in red shirts sit at green desks using tablets in a colorful classroom.

Wide range of books available in the school library:

Colorful library shelf with children's books in bins labeled by reading level, with a magazines new arrivals sign above.

2. Book promotions and Meet-the-Author Assembly sessions :

Students in the school are introduced to new books and encouraged to read through activities like our Mystery Guest Reader pre-assembly programme, book reading conducted in the library by parent volunteers and mass borrowing sessions. Students also get to meet and listen to local authors during our Meet-the-Author assembly sessions.

Book promotions and mass borrowing:

Students in red uniforms watch a presentation in an auditorium, and browse books at a table in a school setting.

'English Ambassadors' Book Reading Session'

Students in red Ahmad Ibrahim Primary School uniforms reading and listening to stories in a school library.

Meet-The- Author:

A Book Buzz school event with librarian Ms Kylie presenting to students in red uniforms seated on a gym floor.

3. Read For Books:

The whole school reads together every year in ‘Read For Books’, a charity book drive. In 2024, the whole school read together to donate a total of 100 books to the less privileged.

Three panels showing children in red shirts and adults reading books and papers during a group reading session.

Certificate of Participation awarded to Ahmad Ibrahim Primary School for Read for Books 2024, signed by NLB Director.

4. Little Red Dot Newspaper Subscription:

Primary 5 and 6 students subscribe to The Little Red Dot, a weekly publication by The Straits Times which curates contemporary articles for students. The Little Red Dot engages visual learners with lots of illustrations, graphics and photographs and encourages critical thinking and analysis.