A school built in 2006 by Insight Educational Trust, Insight Academy on Kanakapura Road,aims to fork out individuals who are edifices of empathy and integrity. With its two branches, the second situated in Marthahalli and catering to CBSE, the Academy is on a journey of integrated learning.
For a school with an accomplished team of academicians, merit-based admission is definitely not on their agenda. Says the Founder and Academic Director May Ruth Dsouza, “Taking in children either on the basis of their merit or the educational background of their parents does not do justice to a fulfilled academic pursuit that our group is designed for.” The vision at Insight is to create an environment where a child is willing to come back the next day. Diverse abilities congregate with a culture of purity and alacrity during the formative years of each child here. This is possible with the school’s inherent watchword to accept a child as it is.
For students at Insight Academy, academics is only a part of the undocked growth of a child. “What signifies teaching here is the holistic approach to education,” believes Ms. Dsouza. The school is a forum where each student is accepted with the same passion, nurtured to the fullest and facilitated to the utmost, so that the child grows up to be a strong and a happy adult. Students with physical deformities also form a part of school strength and are allowed a normal schooling along with the rest at Insight Academy. Students with emotional issues may sometimes need a shadow teacher. The result is that most often than not such children turn out to be academic geniuses scoring more than 95 per cent. All students are naturally sensitised about co-living with humane concerns.
“Our institution believes not in hundred percent result, but in hundred percent education to all. And how do parents of normal children react? They are extremely happy that their child is getting into an institute where along with academics he is exposed to a sphere that teaches him compassion and appreciation,” Ms. Dsouza explains.
Assignment to be completed at home is devised in such a way that the entire family gets together setting aside their gadgets. Home assignments thus translate into family time for students and not a load to be unclogged.
Also, the work assigned is directed towards instilling into each child a sense of discipline. Well-organised connectivity among the school’s staff ensures that students spend not more than half an hour to one hour at home for learning.
Advance preparation by teachers in the beginning of each year nails down an effective study plan that is neither crammed for teachers nor cumbersome for students at Insight.
Sports form the essence of academic agenda at the institute. With three playgrounds within the school premises, students at Insight Academy are spoilt for choice. Exhaustive courts to play football, basket-ball, cricket and a swimming pool engage students physically and mentally.
Scores of trophies won at various National and State level sports meets and displayed in the school, stand a testimony to the productive activities that the school methodises.
“While efficient and well-trained faculty is the backbone of our school, we have an academic counsellor who not only counsels students but also their parents at regular intervals into understanding the needs of their wards. It is essential that parents accept their children as they are and appreciate their skills that need not necessarily be academics. Counselling sessions at Insight Academy do just that,” shares Ms. Ruth.
Equally important is to train faculty to adopt a teaching methodology tailored to meet a comprehensive approach of learning that fills the gap between the best, the average and the below average students well.
Insight Academy allows enough space to each student to blossom into a complete personality.
