Anne Frank

I’ve once heard of a mistaken girl,
Whose life was hard and so,
Sad, I try to remember her name!
Anne Frank!! She had sorrowful a tale and this is how it goes.

She sheltered from a war, a brutal war,
In a secret annex, where her friends and kin,
Would secretly hide from the Nazis,
And wonder when peace would begin.

But alas, how mournful a diary she wrote,
She was misunderstood and lonesome,
Her family fell out with her and with each other,
And inside, her head was beating like a drum!

After living in luck for two years, one afternoon,
A bunch of Nazi’s arrived and took them away.
Only then did the horrible truth dawn on them,
The secret inhabitants of the annex were betrayed.

Anne and her sister died of a disease, Typhoid to be exact
While her mother of hunger and trial and cold
Her father survived and read Anne’s accounts,
A book that was made of gold.

By
Deeksha Verender
Grade 6B,
Media Pod

D is for Distinction, M is for merit,

These facts are proven, the RESULTS are out!!!

IGCSE ( Cambridge) results came in yesterday and have proved beyond doubt the high quality of teaching and learning that Inventure Academy offers.

Mr Irfan Razack, Chairman & co-founder, Nooraine, Co-Founder & Head of School, Mrs P Benjamin, Former Principal, the rest of the Teaching and Admin faculty are thrilled to announce the 100% success of our torch-bearers- the Class of 2009 and congratulates and thanks students, parents and faculty.

A* (A stars) in abundance, A s in plenty and Distinctions galore have brought all degrees of joy and the affirmation of the brilliance, the diligence and tenacity of our students and faculty.

Here are some of the highlights of the results:

100% of our students achieved Distinction or Merit

More than 80% achieved distinction

More than 60% of all grades achieved are A* & A
The subjects that our pioneer students particularly excelled in are:

Biology – 100% A*, Chemistry – 100% A* / A, Math – 82% A* / A, Business Studies 80% A*/ A, Physics – 72% A* / A, ICT - 55% A* / A, Economics 45% A* / A
Some of the results of our students are below:

Ganapathy Nallasivan: seven A* and one A, Bharat Shekar: four A*, two A, Marcos E Wille: four A*, two A, Asha Venugopalan : 3 A* and two A, Rohan Buntval: 4 A* and one A, Harini YR: one A* and five A, Suman Sridharan: 2 A * and three A
Aditi Narayan : 2 A * and three A, Abhilash Nair: 3 A* and two A, Roshan Balaram ……And the list goes on …
On receiving the results we conducted a spontaneous special assembly to acknowledge & celebrate the achievements of our pioneering students, their faculty & parents; while inspiring the rest of our students... And here’s what some of the students had to say, other than, “we don’t want to say”, “we are speechless”….!

Ganapathy Nallasivan: “I am very thrilled with my results. The teachers were extremely supportive. I don’t know what else to say, other than Inventure Academy is a wonderful school and I love the environment here.”

Marcos Wille: “Inventure Academy rules”! In a short period of time I went from performing not so well at Inventure’s placement test to securing a distinction in the ICE. I am very pleasantly surprised by how well this budding school has helped me do. I look forward to doing my A levels here.”

The results have been a reiteration of the effectiveness of our overall education approach and instruction design process. We have always believed in the multiple intelligences approach, with excellence both in academics and in co-curricular activities. And in having fun while learning!

Arpita Deb, our Biology teacher, summed up the feelings of the entire faculty, by saying “Extremely elated! The students worked very hard.”

Inventure Academy congratulates Abhilash Govindan Nair, Aditi Ram Narayan, Asha Venugopalan, Bharat Sekar,Ganapathy Nallasivan, Harini Y.R, Marcos Wille, Rohan Buntval, Roshan Balaram, Suman Sridharan,K. Siddharth. I am sure our parent community is as proud of you as we are! You have done Inventure proud! You have set the trend! You have rewarded your teachers’ parents and well-wishers! You are wished success and fulfillment in all your future challenges, including the AS/A Levels at Inventure!


Best regards

Nooraine Fazal

Head of School

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

Grade 11-Students Portfolios

This is how we did it.............
The relief after you get your results is immeasurable. The students in my batch did phenomenally, but we all had to put hard work in at some point of time. Most students have some strong subjects and some weak ones. Never forget your strengths, but do, devote more time to your weak subjects. As requested by Ms.Nooraine Fazal, our CEO and the Head of School, Inventure Academy, I’m going to share some of my experiences preparing for the IGCSE. At the start of my academic career in Inventure my prospects didn’t look all that good. My worst subject was math, and I was happy with just a pass. Throughout the year I struggled, but it did gradually come to me. And now as a distinction student with an 81 percentile in math, I’m pretty happy with myself.

Here are a couple of tips which hold you in good stead for the exam

1.Focus!! This exam is a priority.
2.Work from the start, paying attention in class pays off, you could just learn from the book, but our teachers in Inventure helped to simplify the concepts, and they really made us understand.
3.During the exams, make it a point to get your sleep in, sleeping through the exam is worse than knowing less, simply because you miss the opportunity to put down what you know.
4.Anxiety is completely useless; it makes you less productive when studying, and slows you down while writing. Remember, what’s done, is done, fretting about it isn’t going to help, focusing on your next exam, is the only way you can make things better.
5.This is pretty common advice, but it’s very effective. If you feel difficulty in answering a question, skip to the next one. Who knows? Sometimes it’ll just come to you, but what’s really important is that you answer as many questions as possible; you need to show the examiner what you do know.

So in conclusion, I personally want to commend the staff at Inventure for the excellent work they’ve done with Inventure’s first batch, one big step for us, and an equally big step for Inventure.

By Suman Sridharan
Grade 11

Grade 9-Students Portfolio