Inventure Academy

Inventure Academy, Bangalore
Carpe Diem (Latin for Seize The Day)
Location
Whitefield - Sarjapur Road, Chikkavaderapura, Near Dommasandra Circle, Bangalore - 562125, Karnataka, India
Information
Type	Independent school
Established	2005
Gender	Mixed
Age	3 to 18
Houses	4
Colour(s)	Red (Adventurers),Yellow (Inventors), Green (Nurturers) and Blue (Venturers)
Website	http://www.inventureacademy.com

Coordinates: 12°53′41″N 77°44′44″E / 12.894748°N 77.745544°E / 12.894748; 77.745544

Inventure Academy is an International coeducational independent school located in Bangalore, India. Founded in 2005, the school is located in the outskirts of Bangalore on a campus of 25 acres.^[1][2]

Board of Trustees

The board of founding trustees of the India Learning Foundation are Noman Razack, Rizwan Razack, Hassan Fazal and Nafees Fazal. The Managing Trustee, CEO and Co-founder of Inventure Academy is Nooraine Fazal.^[3]

Management

The board of founding trustees comprises the Chairman and Co-Founder of Inventure academy, Irfan Razack who is also the Managing Director of the Prestige Group, a reputed property development company in South India. He is also the Honorary Secretary of the AlAmeen Educational Society. The Managing Trustee, CEO and Co-Founder of Inventure Academy, Ms. Nooraine Fazal, holds an MBA degree from Boston University and has worked with IBM and Reuters for a period of 10 years.^[4][5] She is one of the core members of Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) along with Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Mohandas Pai.^[6]

The board of founding trustees of the India Learning Foundation are Noman Razack, Rizwan Razack, Hassan Fazal and Nafees Fazal. The School’s Management team comprises the founding and senior members - Ramesh Hariharan (Vice-Principal), Preet Benjamin Aarons (Head of Primary School) and Varsha Saxena (Head of Administration and Finance).

Principal - Mallika Sen. Mallika Sen has been engaged in school education for more than three decades. Trained in Effective School Management at the Xavier Labour Research Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur, she is the Principal of Inventure Academy. Mallika has worked in several capacities in schools including Principal of The Valley School, KFI; Head of Education of the Aga Khan Foundation; and member of the Dubai Schools Inspection Bureau (DSIB) team that annually inspects and evaluates performance of schools in the country.^[7]

Board of Advisors

• Pritam L Benjamin, former Principal of Indus International School and Inventure Academy.
• Prof. N. Balakrishnan, Associate Director & Professor, Indian Institute of Science.
• Prakash Padukone, former All - England and World Badminton Champion: recipient of the Arjuna and Padmashree Awards.
• Prof. Sadagopan, Founder Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bangalore.

Affiliations

Affiliated to University of Cambridge ( CIPP, IGCSE and A/ AS levels); Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) for ICSE and ISC.

Motto

Carpe Diem--- Seize the Day!

School colours

Orange, White and Blue

School Houses

• Venturers
• Nurturers
• Adventurers
• Inventors

Academics

Inventure Academy offers Kindergarten to Senior Secondary school (Pre K-12) education and is affiliated to the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination (CISCE) and the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES), which is affiliated to Cambridge International Examinations (CIE).^[8]

Academic programme at Inventure Academy follows a theme based approach where students understand and experience concepts through activities that nurture their Multiple Intelligences in consonance with Bloom’s taxonomy.^[9]

The Primary School follows an integrated curriculum based on NCERT (National Council of Education Research and Training) and the Cambridge International Primary Programme (CIPP) guidelines.

For the Middle School, the programme is focused on an experiential, enquiry-based approach where the guidelines are provided by the ICSE & IGCSE Curriculum.^[10]

Secondary & Senior Secondary School students are educated in tune with the syllabus for ICSE, IGCSE, ISC and A/AS level Board Examinations.

Life Skills Curriculum

Inventure Academy offers a unique graded life skills curriculum through its partnership with Inme Learning, providing engaging and meaningful adventure based learning. The Inme Outclass life skills curriculum program for Inventure Academy is designed to coincide with the various development stages of students from class 4 to class 12, and help students become self-disciplined, open to exploration, learn to care about and work with others, understand the larger society, take decisions, and build a sense of leading others. Inme also helps Inventure focus on teacher empowerment and student leader development. The life skills programs help students interact with leading facilitators like Saurabh N. Saklani, author of 'What Teens Need But Can't Quite Say' and Brigadier Trigunesh Mukhejee, author of 'Inside the Indian Army'.

Beyond Academics

In addition to classroom courses, the curriculum includes Field Trips, Workshops and Guest Lectures in the field of Leadership, Sustainable Technology, Climate Change, Career Counseling, etc. Inventure Academy also encourages Theater as part of the School’s Curriculum.

Students of Inventure Academy have had Guest Lectures from personalities like Kapil Dev, Madhav Das Nalapat, Zai Whitaker, Gerry Martin and Srikanth Nadhamuni, and have gone on trips to Lalbagh (Theme), a gasification plant (Science), Foundation for the Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (Science) and Indian Institute of Science, Intel, Navadarshanam.

In April 2013, the 9 year olds of Inventure Academy raised funds to adopt a tiger at the Bannerghatta National Park.^[11]

The school also offers outbound trips from grades 4-12 organized by INME

Inventure Academy also has a unique concept called Inveturing, where the first week of a new school year is spent by all students and faculty doing multiple activities (e.g. building a climbing wall, creating wooden benches for the school park, etc.) which fosters bonding amongst the new batch.

Sports and co–curricular activities

Co-curricular Program Co-curricular activities include sports and competitions like the Tournament of Minds. The Tournament of Minds is an intra mural activity/competition and includes music, dance, speech and drama, art and craft. Creative literary activities are organised.

PODS are interest-based electives offered to Grade 6 upwards, and coined from ‘peas in a pod’. The curriculum and activities are collaboratively designed by students and teachers. The multi-age groupings help students work at their own pace and developmental needs. The activities include music, cooperative learning, art activities, role play, multimedia, field trips, inner reflection.

Students participate in field trips and guest lectures through the year. Inventure Academy has had guest lectures from personalities like Kapil Dev, Madhav Das Nalapat, Zai Whitaker, Gerry Martin and Srikanth Nadhamuni and gone on field trips to Lalbagh(Theme), a gasification plant (Science), Foundation for the Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (Science).

Sports Program The physical education and sports programme is modeled on the “PE for Life” programme followed by some schools in the US. Sports are compulsory for all students on a daily basis grades K-11. After school activities include soccer, basketball and athletics. The school has tied up with organizations to train students who have the ability to reach higher levels of sporting achievement.^[12]

Related links

• School website

References