Inventure Academy

Inventure Academy is a private coeducational International School in Bangalore, India. It is located on the Whitefield- Sarjapura road on the Eastern periphery of Bangalore city and has a campus of over 20 acres.

Established by the India Learning Foundation in 2005, Inventure Academy offers Kindergarten to Senior Secondary (Pre K - Grade 12) education, and is affiliated to the Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) – IGCSE, A/AS levels. Among the top international schools in Bangalore, Inventure Academy aims to instill in its students the ability and conviction to realise their full potential, be socially responsible citizens and excel anywhere in the world.

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.

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 Al-Ameen Educational Society. The Managing Trustee, CEO, and Co-Founder of Inventure Academy, Ms. Nooraine Fazal, holds an MBA degree from Boston University. After working with global giants like Reuters and IBM across places like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sydney, and Hong Kong for ten years, she came back to India to co-found Inventure Academy. She is one of the core members of Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) along with Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Mohandas Pai.

In addition to the Board of Trustees, the school’s management team comprises the founding and senior members - Preet Benjamin Aarons (Dean of Student Affairs) and Varsha Saxena (Head of Administration and Finance).

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. Inventure is also part of the Round Square group of schools.

Motto

The values of Inventure Academy are embedded in its motto “Carpe Diem”, which means ‘to seize the Day.’

School colours

Orange, White and Blue

School Houses

* Adventurers (Red)
* Inventors (Yellow)
* Nurturers (Green)
* Venturers (Blue)

Academics

Inventure Academy is a Pre K – Grade 12 International School, established in 2005, located in Sarjapur Road, Whitefield, and ranked among the top ten co-ed day schools in India, and first in Karnataka by the Education World C-Fore Survey. Inventure Academy’s 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 a Pre K-12 curriculum, based on guidelines from the IGCSE (O Level) and A/AS Levels from CIE. Inventure discontinued teaching new ICSE/ISC batches in 2020, though it previously taught both curricula.

Inventure Academy also has a unique concept called "Inventuring", where the first week of a new school year is spent by students grades K-11 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, particularly newcomers who arrive in large numbers in grades 6, 9 and 11 respectively.

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

For the Middle School, the program is focused on an experiential, inquiry-based approach where the guidelines are provided by the IGCSE Curriculum.

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

Ineventure Academy is one of the only schools in India to offer the AS Level class of Design and Technology, a relatively new offering for CIE in its MakerSpace. The MakerSpace is otherwise used between grades 5-8 to tinker with materials and gain an understanding of building and construction, alongside attaining problem-solving skills.

Life Skills Curriculum

Inventure Academy offers a graded life skills curriculum through its partnership with Inme Learning, with the goal of 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. The life skills programs help students interact with 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'.

The school also offers outbound trips from grades 4-12 organized b
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Beyond Academics program

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, a gasification plant, Foundation for the Revitalization of Local Health Traditions 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.

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.

Inventure Academy is an active supporter of the Model United Nations (MUN) platform and its students have been active participants in such events. It also has its own MUN, typically abbreviated to INMUN. Every other year, a version of INMUN is held known as INYP (Inventure Youth Parliament) which focuses on local government and Indian current affairs. Some resolutions from previous MUNs have been submitted to government offices in Karnataka and the central government in previous years.

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 activities include Music, Art, Dance, etc.

Students participate in field trips and guest lectures through the year. Inventure Academy has had guest lectures on special occasions from personalities like Kapil Dev, Madhav Das Nalapat, Zai Whitaker, Gerry Martin and Srikanth Nadhamuni.

''Sports Program''
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.

As of 2023, Inventure also holds an annual Commerce Fest; an event that uses real life challenges in the business world (pitches, product development, etc.) as games.

Inventure Academy has a biannual student-run publication, the Carpe Diem Chronicles, that publishes features from its core team and all students (including from Ramagondanahalli School) around a central theme.

References

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Cambridge schools in India
International schools in Bengaluru
Educational institutions established in 2005
2005 establishments in Karnataka