Monday, October 11, 2010

Inventure Academy Teachers' Outbound Trip





Inventure Faculty during an INME activity on teamwork

Inventure Academy team participating in `MoonWalk' -A tribute to MJ


Teachers engaged in Bull Ring game underlining significance of focus & team work


Monday, October 4, 2010

Working group on RTE Act formed

Agenda for Bengaluru Infrastructure and Development (ABIDe) has formed a working group to discuss the Right To Education Act. The group will interact with parents, teachers and school administrations and discuss the draft rules set by the state government on implementation of RTE and make recommendations to the government.

Interested people may post their questions and suggestions on http://www.abidebengaluru.in/ or suresh.nr@rajeev. in or send their letters to

ABIDe, 11th Floor, Major
Tower, Sir M Visvesvaraya
Centre, Dr BR Ambedkar
Veedhi, Bangalore-560001.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Ms.Mallika Sen- Principal Inventure Academy

Dear Inventure Community,


It gives me great pleasure to welcome Ms. Mallika Sen as the Principal of Inventure Academy.
All of you already know her as a member of our Management Team. She brings to Inventure and the position a wealth of experience, accolades and expertise which we will all benefit from tremendously. These include:

• Independent Consultant (2008 – 2010): In this capacity, she has conducted teacher training, academic audit and whole school improvement programs for various private schools in India and the Gulf

• Head of Education, Aga Khan Education Service (2004 – 2008)
• Principal, The Valley School, Bangalore Krishnamurti Foundation (1990 – 2004)
• Trustee: The Krishnamurti Foundation India (1998)
• Education Secretary: KFI (2000 – 2004)
• Member of the Standing Committee on Examinations of the Council for Indian School Certificate Examination, New Delhi (2001- 2004)
• She has received the National Award for Teachers from the President of India in 2001

Ms Sen has a B.Ed. (English and History) and Masters in English Literature (awarded gold medal), from Calcutta University. She has also trained in Effective School Management at Xavier Labour Research Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur.

In her role as Principal, Ms. Sen will be overall responsible for converting into reality Inventure Academy’s core purpose and vision. More specifically, she will be responsible for the entire Academic function and day to day administration of Inventure Academy, including making actionable our school development plan and policies.

In this role, she will report to me in my capacity as the CEO & Managing Trustee of Inventure Academy. In a little over five years, Inventure Academy has grown from a start up to a tremendous success as evidenced by our many achievements, be it in academics, sports or co-curricular activities:

• We are ranked in the top 25 day schools all India in the September issue of the 2010 EducationWorld C-Fore survey
• Our academic results at the Grade 10 IGCSE & ICSE exams and in the ASSET tests
• Our various achievements in the sports arena at the inter school and all India levels
• Our excellence in inter school events across life skills, art, dance, music and drama events

With the growth that we have evidenced, the school management (headed up by me as the Managing Trustee) felt the need for a different kind of leadership and organization structure, one that would consolidate our talent – both faculty and student- and propel us forward to being one of the best schools in India in almost every way possible. I am confident that Ms. Sen shares our vision, and has the wisdom, and the expertise to make this happen.

We are delighted that Ms. Sen has accepted the role as she commands tremendous respect from every member of the learning community, at Inventure and beyond. I am sure you will join me in wishing her success and extending her every support in her new role.

Thanking you & best regards
Managing Trustee & CEO
Nooraine Fazal

Inventure Academy bags at Outstanding Cambridge Learner Award

Suman Sridharan, now an AS grade student, did us proud by securing first place across India in Economics AS level examinations held by Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) in June 2010.

Suman says of the Head of School, Nooraine Fazal and his teachers. “They showed confidence and belief in my potential”.

“Economics helps me understand the world better. It helps me understand that there is a scarcity and surplus of resources. As an economist, I wish for a mutually caring environment, where everyone has enough to have the basic minimum requirement,” he added.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Acrostic written by Pranathi

This is an impromptu one word acrostic (form of poetry) written by Pranithi (2B) on CREAM.