Inventure Academy
| Inventure Academy, Bangalore | |
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| Type | International school |
| Motto | Carpe Diem (Latin for Seize The Day) |
| 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 |
12°53′41″N 77°44′44″E / 12.894748°N 77.745544°E
Inventure Academy is an International School in Bangalore. This coeducational independent school is located in the outskirts of Bangalore, India. Founded in 2005, the school is located in the outskirts of Bangalore on a campus of 37 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 - Preet Benjamin Aarons (Head of Primary School) and Varsha Saxena (Head of Administration and Finance).
Meenakshi Myer - Head of School Middle and Senior. Meenakshi Myer is an educator with vast experience both in national and international education. Armed with a Master’s Degree from Delhi University and a B.Ed, her experience in the field of education spans over twenty-five years of teaching, including six years of administration! Additionally, she has two years of experience in Teacher Training which she considers the most vital part of her career because well trained faculty, well versed in the best practices of education, constantly redesigning and upgrading their practice, are the biggest value additions to the teaching learning process. She believes that education should create open minded, sensitized lifelong learners, who are prepared to face the challenges of life in the 21 century with confidence and resilience. The role of educators therefore should be that of change agents who are able to unlock the potential of their students, setting them on a path of creativity and innovation. She is passionate about History and her biggest takeaway from the subject has been to develop a capacity to learn, unlearn and relearn in life.
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 is a Pre K – Grade 12 International School, established in 2005, located on Whitefield-Sarjapur Road, and ranked among the top ten co-ed day schools in India, and second in Karnataka by the Education World C-Fore Survey. Inventure Academy’s unique curriculum, which equips children with 21st Century life skills and is focused on their holistic development, with the expectation that each child will flourish in academics, athletics, and other co-curricular spheres. Inventure Academy offers Pre K-12 curriculum, based on guidelines from IGCSE, A/AS Levels from CIE and CISCE (Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination). The school has affiliation with both examining boards.
Inventure Academy also has a unique concept called Inventuring, 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.
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.[7]
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.[8]
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.[9]
The school also offers outbound trips from grades 4-12 organized by INME
Inventure Academy also has a unique concept called Inventuring, 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 Inventure Academy Sports and P.E. program adapts best practices from around the world, using the latest pedagogy and coaching tools to empower students to create a habit of lifelong health and fitness and provide an opportunity to learn to excel at sport at the highest level. Sports is compulsory for all students on a daily basis. There is an After School Sports program that runs through the week for Athletics (Track and Field), Basketball, Cricket, Football, Table Tennis, Tennis, and Swimming. Inventure Academy also has a collaboration with the Zeeshan Ali Tennis Academy (ZATA) which is supervised personally by Mr. Zeeshan Ali and his team.
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References
- ^ "Schools in Bangalore - Featured by Citizen Matters". Citizen Matters.
- ^ "Inventure Academy among top 20 schools in india, CFORE Survey 2011 - Education World". EducationWorld.
- ^ "Taking life one step at a time - Nooraine Fazal". Deccan Herald.
- ^ "Nooraine ( CEO of Inventure Academy) - A happening homecoming". The Hindu.
- ^ "Nooraine Fazal - Every Learning Opportunity". DeccanChronicle.
- ^ "Nooraine at Bangalore Political Action Committee". Times of India.
- ^ "Multiple intelligences guru's wake-up call - Dr. Gardner Visits Inventure Academy". EducationWorld.
- ^ "Nurturing inventiveness in each child - Inventure Academy". DeccanHerald.
- ^ "Inventure Academy students adopts a tiger". ThisWeekBangalore.