Inventure Academy students won Vibgyor VIVA Cup

Inventure Academy students won the Sub Juniors VIVA Cup in a basketball tournament by beating the host school Vibgyor High 14-2. The tournament was conducted in Vibgyor on January 31st 2011.

The team comprised of Anjali Kapadia, Shrishti Vyas, Armani Vikram, Asha Sarvanan, Pratusha, Sanjana Bakre, Melini Kallar, Shreya Guntunoor, Roshini Sethil Kumar, Ashna Parekh and Tanvi Amba.

Also seen in the photograph is Managing Trustee and CEO of Inventure Academy Nooraine Fazal and school's basketball coach, Somu Kumar.

Sleep- Why tennis players need it by Dr Sunita Maheshwari

How often do tennis players do 500 rallies, 1000 skips, 200 serves and then come home and watch TV until midnight? And then wake up in 5 hours to begin the routine all over again ?

How often have you 'crashed all day' on a holiday 'making up your sleep'?

Sleep is one of the most under-studied, undervalued. Kids fight it, teenagers feel they don't need it, adults are so busy handling the stresses of life that they don't use it either.is used to help muscles grow.

Anabolic hormones such as growth hormones are secreted preferentially during sleep which help with overall growth. Tennis players need to grow...height for serve, muscle mass for stroke power. So, sleep is of the essence.

Interestingly, children who get enough sleep also find it easier to focus on school work. Their memory tends to be better, they grasp concepts faster. All this for tennis players is essential as they have limited time periods in which to do homework and school work catch up.
Interestingly too much sleep is also hazardous and there appears to be an ideal number of hours of sleep that one needs.

Age Average amount of sleep per day

3-5 years 11-13 hours

5-12 years 9-11 hours

Adolescents 9-10 hours

Adults 7-8 hours

Recent studies in adults, publicised in the medical community, have shown that 7-8 hours of sleep reduces blood pressure. Interestingly people who are sleep deprived take time losing weight..

In children the sleep is even more important - it is during sleep that muscles rest and the bones and muscles grow.Food consumed during the day is converted to protien which helps the muscles grow. Anabolic hormones such are as growth hormones are secreted preferentially during sleep which help with overall growth.

So start puuting your kids( and yourself) to sleep early. You will need to stop TV by 7 pm (you can turn it on once they have slept!!) and change your lifestyle to be able to give them their dinner earlier. If they haven't completed their homework, keep it for the morning.

Don't try to teach them at 10 pm, they will not retain anything and will just land up being sleep deprived leading to further lack of concentration the next morning.

On school nights:

1)Feed your kids dinner early ie by 7-7.30 pm, have them wash their feet and brush their teeth

2) Lights and TV and all noise except soft soothing music off by 8-8.30pm.

3) A nice oil leg message may help in-duce the zzzzzzzzzzz time or a cosy

cuddle in bed!

Contributed by Sunita Maheshwari , a parent of Alisha ( Grade 8) and Adil Kalyanpur ( Grade 5) of Inventure Academy.

Sunita is a US Board certified Pediatric Cardiologist who did her training at Osmania Medical College and then at Yale University in the US. She was the winner of the 'Young Clinician Award' from the American Heart Association and the 'Best Teacher Award' at Yale University.

She was Head of Department at Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore for a decade. She was nominated one of the Top 20 women achievers in medicine in India in 2009

My world in Triangles- by Grade 4

Inventure stands 2nd in medal tally at TAISI-2010

After clinching 25 golds, 21 silvers and 19 bronzes, Inventure Academy stood 2nd at the 3rd The Association of International Schools of India (TAISI), held recently in Pune.

Around 17 International schools from across India participated in this three day sports meet which was held at Vishwashanti Gurukul Sports Complex, from November 18th onwards.

 

Tennis                                                                  

Junior Girls: Silver
Senior Girls: Silver
Senior Boys: Silver                                                   

Swimming

Ashwin Swamy:

Backstroke: Bronze

Akriti Bhargava:
Backstroke: Gold
Breaststroke: Silver

Shreya Sarda:
Backstroke: Bronze
Breaststroke: Gold
Butterfly: Gold

Keya Vishwanathan:
Breaststroke: Silver
Butterfly: Silver

Track & Field

Category A Boys:
Ishaan Pujari
200m: Bronze
400m: Gold
1500m: Gold
Relay: Bronze

Prateek Jalan
Javelin: Bronze

Category A Girls
Anika Desai
400m: Gold

Category B Boys
Nirvair Nair
Long jump: Silver
Javelin: Bronze
Relay: Bronze

Category B Girls
Akriti Bhargava
100m: Silver
200m: Bronze
Long Jump: Silver
Relay: Gold

Maya Sanaba
400m: Bronze
800m: Silver

Category C Boys
Nihaal Aarons
100m: Silver
400m: Silver
Javelin: Silver
Relay: Bronze

Category C Girls

Anu Shri Pendiala
100m: Silver
Long jump: Gold
Relay: Gold

Dipali Bajaj
200m: Silver
400m: Silver
Shot Putt: Gold
Discus: Bronze

Sumreen Sandhu
100m: Gold
Long jump: Silver

Payal Kela
200m: Gold
400m: Gold
800m: Gold
Discus: Gold

Category D Boys
Ahaan Bharadwaj
100m: Gold
200m: Silver
Long jump: Gold
Javelin: Bronze
Relay: Bronze

Tejveer Singh Rekhi
200m: Bronze
Long jump: Bronze

Category D Girls
Shreya Sarda
Relay: Gold

Keya Vishwanathan
Long jump: Silver
Category E Boys

Ankur Kela
100m: Gold

200m: Silver

Shot Putt: Gold

Long Jump: Silver

Neileshwar Pramodh

100m: Bronze

Long jump: Bronze

Category E Girls

Anika Desai
100m: Gold
200m: Gold

400m: Gold

Long jump: Gold

Relay: Gold

Rivka Aarons

100m: Bronze

200m: Bronze

Congratulations to all our winners and the entire team! A BIG Thankyou to all the parents who extended their support

Ajay Kela parents of Payala and Ankur Kela
Mamta Desai parent of Anika Desai
Pramod Sreedharan parent of Nileshwar Pramod
Ravana Pendiala parent of Anushri
Sanjay Swami parent of Ashwin Swami

Inventure Academy Choir at `Glorious- Festival of Harmony'

From an inspiring “Lord, make me an Instrument of your Peace”, a prayer of St Francis of Assisi, through the harmony of “We go together” to a frolicsome “Rockin Robin”, 63 tuneful voices from as many smiling singers, captured the hearts of a large audience last Saturday.

The Inventure Chorus made its debut at the 19th Festival of Harmony, on August 21st, 2010, sponsored by “Glorious”, Bangalore’s most celebrated Choral group. Under the baton of Ms Salome Rao and with accompaniment from Sub. Major Ravinder and his pupils at Inventure, on flute, guitar, keyboard and drums, this group of students from Grades 1 to 6 made a huge impact on an audience which celebrates the human voice in a variety of musical forms, year after year. There were participants from many schools and some groups of adults from the city and Hyderabad. Awesome...!

Complete entertainment...! best school choir of the evening...! excellent debut performance... were some of the comments from the audience, who were completely awe-struck by our choir!! A brilliant confident performance, full of spirit; it was hard for people to believe they were onstage in public for the first time.

The energetic dance moves, rock and roll jibes, splits and cart wheels got the audience cheering, screaming and clapping for our students.


Thanks to our talented music teachers, Salome and Ravi, Inventurers have been acclaimed in yet another area of learning and performance. The support of our colleagues, Mrs Meenakshi R, Ms Smith and Ms Priya, Mr Donovan was invaluable. They kept spirits up and indiscipline down! This takes some doing in such a large number of excited, keyed up, animated children!


Those who supported and inspired deserve a mention and a heap of thanks too…


We want to thank Nooraine for all the support, Shaheen and Mallika Ma'am for organizing time for practice, Jagrithi Ma'am and Mrs.Benjamin for the constant guidance and support.

Heartfelt gratitude to all the enthusiastic parents especially to Shikha Rana who stepped in to help us get the kids ready to go on stage.

Want to thank Preet especially for ALL the help in coordinating with the parents, your assistance allowed us to focus more on the music while we could rest assured knowing that you would take care of the rest. BIG thankyou to Varsha for taking care of ticket sales !! Also want to thank the grade teachers and subject teachers for sending the students for choir practices that were held durings their class time.

Last but not the least where would we be without our amazing and talented kids who exceeded all expectations with their phenominal performance. We hope that this is the first of many more such performances in the future!

The Inventure Chorus
Grade 1 Anvita Vishwanath, Mukul Jha, Arushi Menon; Grade 2-Sahil Kuchlous, Amisha Deb,Eshan Tripathi, Rohan Malvi,Manvika Satish, Nikhil Niranjan, Diya Abrol, Anushree Arora, Advaita Dubey, Rosalyn Mathews, Anushka Athreya, Anjali Mallampooty, Taamara Kellappan, Niharika Ghose, Megan George; Grade 3- Sheryl Thomas, Pranav Mishra, Anusha, Ananya Bharadwaj, Varun Bali, Agastya Rana, Yash Podar, Anay Mehta, Mihika Birmiwal, Alina Ahmed, Nikita George, Roshini Senthil Kumar, Aashna Parekh, Sunaina Bose; Grade 4- Sanjana Bakre, Ananya Parthasarathy, Inika Kandwal, Samyukta Rajagopalan, Sadhana Chellapa, Natasha Aji, Rivka Aarons, Armani Vikram, Rohit Rangan, Bharatha Ramaswamy, Maigun Rekhi, Rudri Mehta; Grade 5- Stuti Sen, Aryaman S, Rajshree Mahabalesh, Tanya Thatha, Karan Buntval, Dhruv Bhatia, Anika Desai, Ishi Tripathi, Aditya Narayan, Aryaman Dubey, Riddhi Bhatt, Samhita Ramji; Grade 6- Anirudh Bakre, Nikhil Sharma, Abhay Rao, Soundarya Chellappa, Maya Shenoy, Anarv Mathur, Yun Seohyum.


Soloists: Anvita Vishwanath, Anushree Arorra, Rphit rangan, Ananyya Bharadwaj, karan Buntwal , Anika Desai, Rivka Aarons.

Accompanists: Keya Vishwanath and Abhay Rao (guitar), Dhruv Bhatia (drums), Yun Seohyum (flute), Anarv Mathur (keyboard) and S Ravinder (Base guitar and flute),

My sisters and I

Dear passer by, please wait,
Listen to our story, before it is too late,
Me and my sisters, you call us lakes,
Witnesses to progress in human fate,

Our connections severed by mounts of concrete.
Poisoned by wastes of human existence,
are silently dying.
Our friends, the birds, fishes and insects
Centuries of close bonding
dying with us.
A mass mourning?

Small groups work tirelessly
fearing for us.
A peep into their field books
Documenting our doom?

Dear city dweller,
Can you reverse this sorrowful tale?
then…..
you have to claim us as your own,
keep us in your thoughts,
your stories to your children,
your future missions and songs of change,
and…
Give our city a happy ending.

Lakshmi Kumar
She is a faculty member of Inventure Academy.

INVENTURING- A unique foundation program at Inventure Academy

A new academic session at Inventure Academy does not start with books, uniforms or in classrooms but with Inventuring - a unique foundation program aimed at cementing bonds between teachers and students, making new students comfortable and setting the key note for expectations at Inventure Academy.

Students engage in projects – both single and in groups – and experience first hand, the creative process, thinking-out- of- the- box and being active participants in a team. The hidden agenda is helping students realize their inner potential, making them believe in themselves, understanding ways of true learning and respecting interdependence.

“It is because there is no `One Way’ to get the best out of the children,’’ states Inventure Academy Head of Kindergarten and Primary, Shaheen Shafi, who has been the architect and part of this tradition of Inventuring since inception.

Designed on Howard Gardener’s theory of Multiple Intelligences and Inventure’s core values , the 2010-11 ‘Inventuring’ started with a daily schedule of students participating in four broad categories- Outdoor, Classroom Projects, Choice Time and Golden Time.

During Inventuring, each day started with an outdoor activity, like dance or sports, to kick-start mental and physical agility and facilitating team bonding. This was followed with classroom projects based on exploring Multiple Intelligences (MI) of students.

The classroom projects on multiple intelligences had larger themes like Colors Of Our World, Creative Sparks, Think-a thon under which students were tasks specific to their grades.

In Colors of Our World, students of grade 1 and 2 created pictures using cardboard shapes, grade 3 and 4 created a family using balloons, wool, paint, fabric and cotton. Grades 5 and 6 students created a chandelier using empty bottles, straws and paper cups. Grade 7 and 8 painted their groups to create a “people sculpture” based on a few topics/themes, and grades 9 and 10 had to create an installation based on the topic of the cityscape using the fabrics & card board.

Similarly under creative sparks, each class was divided into groups of five students who made an advertisement either on washing powder, shampoo, dog food, energy drink, tooth-paste and sell it in the most convincing manner to their peers and teachers!

Think-a-thon was equally fun as students in primary section were either asked to make a toy using plastic glasses and straws, make a card game and define its rules and demonstrate how to play, make a 3-D model of a house from a given floor plan.

``The activities of project, were designed to judge their logical thinking, functionality, creativity, variety, co-ordination, rhythm and stage presentation,’’ adds Shaheen.

``It was amazing to see the creative ideas in students and their conviction in presenting it as the best,’’ exclaims Ekta Bhasin a teacher of grade 5B.While students from smaller grades designed telephone, bells, bouncing balls and juice set for Barbie by using only five plastic glasses and straws, the higher grades students designed different phases of a space ship prior to its launch.

Classroom projects were then followed by Choice Time which would give students a choice of activity from options like sketching, climbing wall, mosaic art, gardening or cooking. The aim of having a Choice Time as part of Inventuring is to nurture individuality and give students an opportunity to explore different choices before zeroing in on what they are best at.

The Inventuring day wrapped up with Golden Time- an integral part of learning, where students’ reflected on their day’s learning and sharing related experiences.

`` My project on choosing natural elements to create music during Wild Wide World has changed my view towards my surrounding. I realized that even a few pebbles in a plastic bottle can create a beautiful beat,’’ says new student Aishwarya Hirve, grade 4 summarizing her understanding facilitated by Golden Time.

Curtains came down on Inventuring with a Sleepover for grades 3 and above during which students along with teachers stayed back in school for a night, a once-in-a year event. ``It was sports, bonfire, music, dance and good food on offer. Most of the arrangements were made by our school and it was only fun and activity for us,’’ says Tarang Shah of grade 5 B.

Students and teachers went around the campus, collected wood for the bonfire, and danced around on music, played games. ``While some used mattress provided by school, others got their sleeping bags and chatted till late in the night.

``This is what the aim of Inventuring is, to notice one child amongst many and to look at the world through his eyes,’’ summarizes Shaheen.

Indian Express News Article

The India Week-A Visual Treat of Indian Splendour

Thou art the ruler of the minds of all people,
dispenser of India's destiny.
Thy name rouses the hearts of Punjab, Sind,
Gujarat and Maratha,
Of the Dravida and Orissa and Bengal;
It echoes in the hills of the Vindyas and Himalayas,
mingles in the music of Jamuna and Ganges and is
chanted by the waves of the Indian Sea.
They pray for thy blessings and sing thy praise.
The saving of all people waits in thy hand,
thou dispenser of India's destiny.
Victory, victory, victory to thee.

Reveberating the meaning of our National Anthem, the Primary section of Inventure Academy celebrated the India Week.Here is a glimpse of the colourful plethora of Indian Culture.

Grade 1A celebrated the unique features of Tamil Nadu.




Grade 1B toured the fields of Punjab:







Karnataka Darshanam with Grade 2A




Delhi Darhsan with Grade 2B

Chatpata chat stalls of Delhi

Grade 3A rolled down the slopes of Himachal


The Himachali Caps

The Apple Orchards

Rajasthani View with Grade 3B


Made by our Learning Lab Students

Indira Gandhi Canal,the boon for Rajashtan

Jai Maharashtra with Grade 4A

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Garba with Gujarat-Grade 5A

Nagaland, the land of hills and warriors-Grade5B

Book Report of the Birdwing By Dhruv Bhatia,

Author: Rafe Martin
Characters: Ardwin, The Stepmother, a magician, Rose (The sister), Horse, and Alene.
Summary: Once upon a time six princes were turned into swans by their evil stepmother. They spent their time with a flock of swans in the northern wilderness. Six years later Rose, their sister, broke the spell. But Rose did not complete the spell. The youngest brother (Ardwin) was left with his left arm as a wing.
Ardwin finds out that his father plans to cut his wing off. So he runs away from home to see the swans he once used to live with. The swans did not believe Ardwin when he told them that he used to live with them. On his way back he killed a lion and met a magician who healed his wounds and he met a girl called Alene who he fell in love with. He then decided to find his stepmother and ask her to break the spell. Read the book to find out what happens next. You have to find out for yourself!
Which part I liked: I liked the part in which Ardwin meets his stepmother.
Why I would recommend this book to others: I would recommend this book because it has an interesting story and keeps the reader wanting to find out what happened next. It also gave such good description of characters that I could easily visualize them.

Dhruv Bhatia
Grade 4 A

Fun with colours

Dyeing is Fun!


Cloth,colour,thread and a little bit of magic gave us a beautiful piece of art.


We never knew that we could tie so well and the result was brilliant!

As part of our activities at the Learning Lab we had Tie and dye as a whole class session for grades 1 through 4 in the month of January. The children diligently tied the cloth with strings – This was till we discovered the joys of rubber bands!! They enjoyed all the water soaking, splashing (accidental of course!) involved. The MOST exciting task though, was to put on their myriad coloured gloves to dip the cloth in the dye. They did this with all the earnestness of a doctor going in for surgery! only to break into giggles at more accidental splashing!! We now have many gorgeous tie and dye material in many hues to show for all the fun work.

Workshop on Book Reading By Ms.Roopa Pai

A report – book reading by Ms. Roopa Pai, author of “ Taranauts and the quest for the Shyne Emerald".

Roopa came, captivated and conquered the minds of the young readers of grade 3 and 4 with her magic in story telling. She entered the world of the little ones and created a space for herself by speaking their language.
Imagination is the spark that sets off the creative impulses in a reader’s mind and that’s what Roopa used as her “mantra” to play with the fantasies of the children. Their journey to the world of “ Taranauts, the quest for the Shyn Emeralds” was a mystical one and Roopa spun an interconnected web of imagination to stretch and weave the children’s own fantasies.



Shika Roy,
Educator,
Inventure Academy

ADIL KALYANPUR OF INVENTURE ACADEMY WINS KA STATE TENNIS TOURNAMENT

Adil Kalyanpur of Class 4A won the Karnataka state under 10 tennis tournament ‘Battleground’ held in Hennur, Bangalore on September 20th, 2009
and did his school Inventure academy proud!

Congratulations!!!!!

CHESS

The King is as slow as a Sumo wrestler for only one space he moves,
The Queen is as mighty and powerful as a lightning bolt, moving in all directions,
The Knight moves like the letter “L”, an angle of ninety degrees,
The Bishop is like an arrow heading diagonally.
The Rook moves in any one direction, north, south, east or west,
The Pawns are like soldiers who guard the King and Queen,
The Board is only black and white with squares of the same sizes.

By
Samhita,Grade 4B

Space

A meteor is as fast as a cheetah orbiting around the sun,
Saturn has rings like a hula hoop,
The sun is as bright as golden daffodils,
Neptune is as blue as sadness,
Constellations are like different geometric shapes,
Now that is enough, for I have learnt much about space.

By Samhita,Grade 4B.

Grade 4-Students Portfolios

A shadow in the sky

There is a shadow in the sky,
Floating up, up so high,
I want to touch it,
It’s so, so high,
I want to get the shadow up in the sky,
Then I wondered whose shadow it was,
Very long like a buttercup,
I took a ladder to the clouds
But I still couldn’t touch a dainty cloud,
I still wanted to touch the shadow in the sky,
The shadow up, up so high.

By Samhita Ramji,
Grade 4B


Village



The people in the village are very kind
If someone hits them, they don’t mind
The people in the city, oh! What a pity!
They are always trying to be witty
In the village there is more greenery
And much better scenery
The people in the city might be rich
But there’s noise at the highest pitch
So the village is the best
If you want you can come and test.


- Rasika
Grade 4B