It has been a great few weeks at Ben Davis Ninth Grade Center. We honored our Straight A students with a luncheon and will honor our Top 100 soon with a breakfast. We are currently rolling into the heart of semester two. After Spring Break we will have another opportunity for academic support with late buses running Tuesday and Thursday from 4/14-5/7 and Monday-Thursday each week from 5/11-5/28. We appreciate your support in maximizing this time for our students to master content and earn credits.

We are also excited to finalize many of our wonderful Spring ceremonies such as our Honor Society Induction, Freshmen Farewell, and Evening of Excellence. Along with these events we also look forward to our Spring Band, Choir, and Orchestra concerts. It is an exciting time of the year when our students have an opportunity to display the amazing and talented young adults that they are.

Finally, our 3rd nine weeks report cards will be distributed on Thursday, March 19. This is a very important checkpoint as we move past the half way point of semester two and into the final stretch of the school year. Our mission of ensuring students complete their freshmen year with a minimum of 12 credits continues to be our focus during this time. Please take this opportunity to speak with your student about their grades and connect with teachers if you have questions. This is an exciting time for our students as they prepare to transition to BDHS or BDU next school year. As we pause to reflect on their growth we see a group that is ready to achieve at a high level during the 19-20 school year and beyond.

Steve Samuel, Principal, Ninth Grade Center

Join us for RosieCon Book Festival, Saturday, April 25, 2020 at Chapel Hill Center. Authors from the Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award will be participating in a day filled with author panel discussion, fun activities, book giveaways, and autographing. Visit the event website for more infomation https://sites.google.com/wayne.k12.in.us/rosiecon/authors. Over 20 authors will be in attendance.

The RosieCon Book Festival will celebrate the titles on the Rosewater list and inspire teens to read. This is an annually changing recommended reading list of young adult titles sponsored by the Indiana Library Federation. The event will connect readers directly with authors, a well-known reading engagement tactic. Ticket prices for the event are $20. If you use the code Wayne, tickets will only be $10. Students at NGC will also have a visit from the author Wendelin Van Draanen on Friday, April 24, 2020. Students will participate in this visit through their English classes.

School Hours: 8:15am - 3:20pm

Main Phone Line: 317.988.7500

Attendance: 317.988.7600

Website: www.wayne.k12.in.us/bdfresh