Navachetan Convent is situated in a nature-blessed place called Venur on the banks of the river Palguni in BelthangadyTaluk of Dakshina Kannada District, fifty-five kilometres north-east of Mangalore on the Mangalore – Dharmasthala highway. The hard work of earlier missionaries bore fruit with the establishment of Christ the King
Church in 1937. Christa Raj Ashram came into being in 1972 where the Ursuline Franciscan Sisters gave the taste of God’s love by their dedicated service at Venur. Navachetan Convent was a filial house and on August 11, 2007 it became a full-fledged community.
On June 4, 2012 Navachetan Lower Primary School was started and Sr. Jyothi G D’Souza was the first headmistress with 32 students. The Grihini School building which was donated by the Diocese of Mangalore for Grihini Training Center served both purposes. It was used as Navachetan Lower Primary school building too. Sr. Sylvia Zita Pinto succeeded her in the year 2013.
Infrastructure was the immediate need of the institution. Rev. Sr. Lenita D’Souza , the Provincial of Mangalore Province laid the foundation stone for the new school building. Our dream came true when the full construction of the building of three floors was completed and gracefully inaugurated on 19 th January 2015. After a long struggle of the management we obtained permission from state Government for English Medium for Lower Primary (standards 1 to 5) on 5 th December 2015 The school obtained the permission from the state Government to upgrade Navachethan Lower Primary School into Navachethan Higher Primary School on 31 st May 2017. At present there are 281students studying in this institute under the able leadership of Sr. Zita Sylvia Pinto.