For our final official meeting of 2025, The Old Richmond Grange will host the president of the Piedmont Forest School, Sheri Grace. The Piedmont Forest School is play based, child-led learning in the classroom of nature. Please join us to find out more about this very special local school.
The lecture is Monday, October 27, at 6pm and is open to the public. ORG is located at 6591 Tobaccoville Road, Tobaccoville, N.C. 27050
About the School:
Piedmont Forest School Mission and Vision:
The mission of Piedmont Forest School is to provide to children of all abilities and backgrounds authentic forest school and nature-based education programs which foster the development of the whole child, while engendering in them a love of and a commitment to caring for the natural world. PFS envisions progressive and equitable educational programs where children of all abilities and backgrounds learn together year-round through creative play while immersed in nature.
Childhood Education from Bank Street College in New York City, NY. Her
passion for wanting to make a difference in early childhood education
led her to gain her doctorate degree from the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro. She holds a Forest School Teacher Institute
Certificate as a Level One Forest School Leader, and a Forest School
Director, and is completing their “train the trainer” program. Sheri
never imagined she would found a Forest School, but now cannot imagine a
better place for children to learn and grow, or for her to work. If
Sheri cannot be found in the woods with her students, she is kayaking,
camping, or walking barefoot in the creek observing and appreciating the
natural world around her.
Sheri H Grace, PhD
Founder, Director, and
Learning Coordinator
Piedmont Forest School
The Old Richmond Grange 