Inventure Academy
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Inventure Academy is a Bangalore
Bangalore
Bengaluru , formerly called Bengaluru is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Bangalore is nicknamed the Garden City and was once called a pensioner's paradise. Located on the Deccan Plateau in the south-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is India's third most populous city and...

-based international co-ed school. It was established by the India Learning Foundation in 2005.

Board of trustees

The Board of founding Trustees includes Noman Razack, Mr Rizwan Razack, Mr Hassan Fazal and Mrs Nafees Fazal.

Board of Advisors

The Board of Advisors of 12 members includes Prof Sadagopan (founding Director of IIITB), Prof Balakrishnan (Associate Director of IISC), Mrs Pritam Benjamin (former Principal of Inventure Academy, Indus International School
Indus International School
The Indus International School, Bangalore, is an International Baccalaureate school situated on a 40-acre campus at Sarjapur, Bangalore which was established by the Indus Trust in the year 2003...

 and NAFL, Bangalore)

Affiliations

Affiliated to University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

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

Education

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
Cambridge International Examinations
University of Cambridge International Examinations is a provider of international qualifications for students between the ages of 14 and 19, offering examinations and qualifications in more than 150 countries. It is an Examination Board under Cambridge Assessment, founded in 1858 as a department...

 (CIE).

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
Cooperative learning
Cooperative learning is an approach to organizing classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences. Students must work in groups to complete tasks collectively...

, art activities, role play, multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...

, field trip
Field trip
A field trip or excursion, known as school trip in the UK and school tour in Ireland, is a journey by a group of people to a place away from their normal environment...

s, inner reflection.

Inventure provides students opportunities to showcase and develop their skills and talents, through weekly Class assemblies, intra and inter school competitions hosted by the school and events such as Multiple Intelligences Xplored (M.I.X), the Champions League, Annual Day, Sports Day and Awards Day.

Students participate in field trips and guest lectures through the year. Inventure Academy has had guest lectures from personalities like Kapil Dev
Kapil Dev
Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj , better known as Kapil Dev, is a former Indian cricketer. He captained the Indian cricket team which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup...

, Madhav Das Nalapat
Madhav Das Nalapat
Madhav Das Nalapat , holds the UNESCO Peace Chair and is Professor of Geopolitics at Manipal University, an international private university headquartered in Southern India. The former Coordinating Editor of the Times of India, Prof. Nalapat writes extensively on security, policy and international...

, Zai Whitekar, 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
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 and athletics. The school has tied up with organizations to train students who have the ability to reach higher levels of sporting achievement

Quality Management

Inventure Academy has established an Academic Quality Management System [AQMS] - a Teaching-Learning and Resource Management System that optimizes effort and minimizes wastage in a school system, while promising greater efficiency in teaching and better learning.

AQMS encompasses checks and balances in every area of a school’s function including admissions, organizational planning, academics, communications, infrastructure and human resource management, student welfare and routine task implementation.
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