Inventure Academy

The board of founding trustees of the India Learning Foundation are Noman Razack, Rizwan Razack, Hassan Fazal and Nafees Fazal. The Managing Trustee, CEO and Co-founder of Inventure Academy is Nooraine Fazal.

The board of founding trustees comprises the Chairman and Co-Founder of Inventure academy, Irfan Razack who is also the Managing Director of the Prestige Group, a reputed property development company in South India. He is also the Honorary Secretary of the Al-Ameen Educational Society. The Managing Trustee, CEO and Co-Founder of Inventure Academy, Ms. Nooraine Fazal, holds an MBA degree from Boston University. After working with global giants like Reuters and IBM across places like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sydney and Hong Kong for ten years, she came back to India to co-found Inventure Academy. [2] She is one of the core members of Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC) along with Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Mohandas Pai.[3]

In addition to the Board of Trustees, the school’s management team comprises the founding and senior members - Preet Benjamin Aarons (Head of Primary School) and Varsha Saxena (Head of Administration and Finance).

• Pritam L Benjamin, former Principal of Indus International School and Inventure Academy.
• Prof. N. Balakrishnan, Associate Director & Professor, Indian Institute of Science.
• Prakash Padukone, former All - England and World Badminton Champion: recipient of the Arjuna and Padmashree Awards.
• Prof. Sadagopan, Founder Director, Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Bangalore.

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

The values of Inventure Academy are embedded in its motto “Carpe Diem”, which means ‘to seize the Day.’[4]

Orange, White and Blue

• Adventurers
• Inventors
• Nurturers
• Venturers

Inventure Academy is a Pre K – Grade 12 International School, established in 2005, located on Whitefield-Sarjapur Road, and ranked among the top ten co-ed day schools in India, and second in Karnataka by the Education World C-Fore Survey. Inventure Academy’s curriculum, which equips children with 21st Century life skills and is focused on their holistic development, with the expectation that each child will flourish in academics, athletics, and other co-curricular spheres. Inventure Academy offers Pre K-12 curriculum, based on guidelines from IGCSE, A/AS Levels from CIE and CISCE (Council for the Indian School Certificate Examination). The school has an affiliation with both examining boards.

Inventure Academy also has a unique concept called "Inventuring", where the first week of a new school year is spent by all students and faculty doing multiple activities (e.g. building a climbing wall, creating wooden benches for the school park, etc.) which fosters bonding amongst the new batch.

The Primary School follows an integrated curriculum based on NCERT (National Council of Education Research and Training) and the Cambridge International Primary Program (CIPP) guidelines.

For the Middle School, the program is focused on an experiential, enquiry-based approach where the guidelines are provided by the ICSE & IGCSE Curriculum.

Secondary & Senior Secondary School students are educated in tune with the syllabus for ICSE, IGCSE, ISC and A/AS level Board Examinations.

Inventure Academy offers a graded life skills curriculum through its partnership with Inme Learning, with the goal of providing engaging and meaningful adventure based learning. The Inme Outclass life skills curriculum program for Inventure Academy is designed to coincide with the various development stages of students from class 4 to class 12, and help students become self-disciplined, open to exploration, learn to care about and work with others, understand the larger society, take decisions, and build a sense of leading others. The life skills programs help students interact with facilitators like Saurabh N. Saklani, author of 'What Teens Need But Can't Quite Say' and Brigadier Trigunesh Mukhejee, author of 'Inside the Indian Army'.

The school also offers outbound trips from grades 4-12 organized by INME

In addition to classroom courses, the curriculum includes Field Trips, Workshops and Guest Lectures in the field of Leadership, Sustainable Technology, Climate Change, Career Counseling, etc. Inventure Academy also encourages Theater as part of the School’s Curriculum.

Students of Inventure Academy have had Guest Lectures from personalities like Kapil Dev, Madhav Das Nalapat, Zai Whitaker, Gerry Martin and Srikanth Nadhamuni, and have gone on trips to Lalbagh, a gasification plant, Foundation for the Revitalization of Local Health Traditions and Indian Institute of Science, Intel, Navadarshanam.

In April 2013, the 9 year olds of Inventure Academy raised funds to adopt a tiger at the Bannerghatta National Park.[5]

Inventure Academy also has a unique concept called "Inventuring", where the first week of a new school year is spent by all students and faculty doing multiple activities (e.g. building a climbing wall, creating wooden benches for the school park, etc.) which fosters bonding amongst the new batch.

Inventure Academy is an active supporter of the Model United Nations (MUN) platform and its students have been active participants in such events.[6]

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 activities include Music, Art, Dance, etc.

Students participate in field trips and guest lectures through the year. Inventure Academy has had guest lectures on special occasions from personalities like Kapil Dev, Madhav Das Nalapat, Zai Whitaker, Gerry Martin and Srikanth Nadhamuni.

Sports Program Sports is compulsory for all students on a daily basis. There is an After School Sports program that runs through the week for Athletics (Track and Field), Basketball, Cricket, Football, Table Tennis, Tennis, and Swimming. Inventure Academy also has a collaboration with the Zeeshan Ali Tennis Academy (ZATA) which is supervised personally by Mr. Zeeshan Ali and his team.