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We Are One.

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We are One. One School. One Campus. And we are so excited for you to see it!

We not only built and improved this facility to serve our current families, but also to allow for growth in the future. We made this change to serve our community and impact Albany for Christ. What a blessing it has already been!

Here are a few things that have changed since last year at the 1418 Old Pretoria Campus…

New Facilities

  • 15 classrooms
  • Total 30,000 square feet of added space
  • 150 work stations
  • Playground
  • Kitchen and cafeteria
  • Media center
  • Reception area and administrative offices

Improved Facilities

  • Brick facade on existing buildings
  • New energy efficient windows and doors
  • Improved security measures
  • Improved lighting in all classrooms
  • Renovated science lab
  • Renovations total 60,000 square feet
  • Smart Board technology in every classroom
  • Updated security measures

If you would like to schedule a visit to SCA to see the changes for yourself please call 229.883.5677 to set up a visit for your family. We would love to meet you and show you around our sprawling campus.

Sherwood Cup

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If a visitor came to our school on Friday, March 27 this year, they would be surprised to see war paint, crazy colored t-shirts and classrooms filled with yells of students cheering on their classmates. On this day, Sherwood Christian Academy’s grades fought hard for the coveted trophy declaring the best grade on campus. It is called Sherwood Cup.

Every year, different events pop up, which makes every Sherwood Cup different in some fashion. These events include things like geography bowl, chess and eating contests to soccer, flag football and sock war. It is a relaxed day when teachers and students get to cut loose and have fun without being in a classroom setting. However, at the end of the day it was all about the trophy. In the middle school, the seventh grade won, which was a great surprise. They are the only grade in Sherwood history to win two years in a row and the only grade to ever win their sixth grade year. For the high school, it was no shock when the class of 2015 walked away with the trophy, winning it all their final year. As a senior, I have participated in seven Sherwood Cups, and each year they get better and better. Some of my favorite high school memories come from this day because it made us pursue teamwork together, ultimately making my senior class an even tighter family.

Author- Hannah Thompson

Sherwood Takes Future Cities’ Grand Prize

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All of these teams represented SCA well in the competition last Saturday, January 24th in Atlanta, Ga.

Team Aquila Island

Julia Warbington, Dawson Whatley, Caleb Carr, Natalie Brock and Ana Skidmore

Team Powerville

Austin Roach-Delk, Payton Chambless, Thomas Waller, Hayden Rish, Harry Merritt

Team Crossway Village

Cameron McDonald, Jared Higdon, Nathan Roberts

Team Leelaville

Alex Love, Elizabeth Montgomery, Elizabeth Rigsby, Laurel Ann Wilkerson and Liza Langstaff

Won Best Transportation Award

Team Dorado Province

Nathanael Sancinito, Emily Whatley, Andre Orr

Won award for Most Sustainable Food Production and Best Futuristic City and…

The Grand Prize of Regional Champions for the State of Georgia

These three received a piece of luggage to use on their all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. in mid-February. There they will compete against 37 other regions in our nation’s Capitol for a chance to win the National Grand Prize of two weeks at Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala. There they will go through astronaut training for two weeks this summer; a prize valued at over $3000 for each of them. In Washington, not only will they compete in the Future City event, but they will visit many museums, go on bus tours of the city, eat in some of the city’s finest restaurants, and possibly get to visit the White House and be honored as some of the nation’s best engineering and scientific thinkers of 2015.

These three students have worked tirelessly on their own time since school started. Since 7th and 8th graders were not required to participate in Future City as a class project this year, it is very admirable that they decided to add this heavy workload to an already full academic schedule. David Orr and Chuck Sancinito mentored the groups this year, providing valuable feedback as Emily, Nathanael, and Andrew worked through possible solutions to growing food items in an urban setting. Kim Sancinito worked with all this year’s Future City teams helping them prepared for their oral presentations, giving suggestions on how to answer any possible questions that the judges might ask.

Let’s congratulate all these students on their hard work this year and especially Team Dorado Province. They have all represented Sherwood Christian Academy well!

Author, Vickie Davis

Spiritual Emphasis Week

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Spiritual Emphasis Week is a great time every semester when we try to give SCA students some time to focus on spiritual growth. This year we were blessed to have Dr. Kurt Wise come and present to our students a case for Biblical, young-age creationism.  Dr. Wise is a biology professor at Truett McConnell College in Cleveland, Georgia.  He is also the director of the Center for Origins Research at Truett.  Dr. Wise is considered one of America’s leading voices in the discussion supporting young-age creationism.

In chapel sessions each day, he brought a tremendous wealth of scientific knowledge to our students to help them in their understanding of this issue.  More importantly, Dr. Wise dug into God’s Word with our students to emphasize to them how critical it is for them to know and have faith in the Bible as the foundation for all of their beliefs on this topic and any other.  Dr. Wise also spent time in some of our Bible classes each day fielding a variety of questions.  He also spoke at Sherwood Baptist Church each evening presenting some scientific creationist theories that seem to be superior to evolutionary theories. It was a great week to dig into God’s Word and discover some of His truths as they pertain to this critical topic of Biblical, young-age creationism.

*Article by Jeremy Davidson

Thank you Dr. Wise for taking the time to come pour into our students this past week!