Investiture of the Student Council leaders at Inventure Academy

The outgoing School Captain, Ambika Natarajan hands over the School Flag and the mantle of captaincy to Gauri Billore, the new School Captain.

Ms Sinduja started the day with an introduction and sang a song as an Invocation, for the rise of the new Student Council leaders. It was a very calm song and so was her voice with that great tone. Next, our two School captains, junior and senior, came and read a poem. After that, Divya stood on stage and told us the reason this Investiture ceremony is held.
Then Ms Mary Whabi asked Mrs Preet Aarons on stage to address the assembly. Ms Preet called the old and the new Student Council leaders to show the audience who the leaders were and are. She spoke a few phrases related to this occasion. She wished them good luck and spokeof how all of us can be better leaders. She told us few qualities and after every quality she asked us if we have these qualities and if any of the present leaders have these qualities. She told us how the work can be made faster as well as easier and better. The main quote from her was that leaders are not born but they are made, by the process of hard work. Preet ma’am continued about our school values and how they are related to this occasion. She ended with wishing us a great year ahead..
Ms Mary Whabi told us how the council must be feeling and called a few teachers on stage for the main ceremony. As Mary ma’am called out the names, the respective teachers pinned the badges and gave the Council members a rose each time. It was a great moment of honour for them. The order was from School captains to House captains. These were the leaders that would decide the school’s future. Senior to junior, what a day in the school’s history! This will make wonders. Now they would help us all fulfill the school core purposes.
Later former school captain, Ambhika Natesan, gave the school flag to the new school captain, Gauri Billore. Now the captains were reciting their pledge, led by Head of School, Ms Nooraine Fazal. The pledge was about their promises to be kept. By now the crowd had moved themselves to the shade from the hot boiling sun, just like me!
The school gave Mrs Pritam Benjamin, former principal and chief guest for the event. a basket of flowers and in return she gave us a speech about her times of being a captain. Then she changed the topic to what a famous author, Stephen Covey saidabout every child being a leader. So she wasn’t the only one who said everyone is a leader. She had changed the topic many times but it all related to Inventure. She ended her nine minute speech only to say “May God bless you all leaders”.
Then Divya took over and told us about a true leader. The mike passed on to Mary ma’am, who took us into the cultural part of this assembly. This started with Ms Salome ma’am singing ‘The potters hand’. During this calm song, Pushkal and Marcos moved the flags back with a struggle, maybe because next, there was a dance. Payal, Ankur and Anushree performed Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. It was a thrilling performance, as Divya said later. Next was the song ‘Breaking free’ sung by 4 girls from senior school, accompanied by Ms Salome on the guitar.
The final was performed by three dance teachers, in hip-hop style. The crowd roared at this stunning performance.
After this the choir came on stage to sing two anthems – first the school anthem and then the national anthem. Everyone was standing still, quiet and not wanting to disturb the voices of the choir, except for the national anthem where everyone sang. Finally at 3:20, Mary ma’am spoke, to end this great day and ceremony.
Reporting for the Media Pod, Nihal George and Siddarth Saxena, Grade 6 A
Thursday, July 30th, 2009