8-13 year olds
UK
9am-4pm
£395/week
— The big idea —
They come for the adventure.They leave with sharper minds.
Wrapped in the mess and magic of the outdoors, children build the habits to:
Spot when they're being led
Ask the questions others don't
Resist the easy answer
Stand apart when it counts
Change their minds
— A grand reveal, every week —
Meet our Mystery Guests
A character from history or fiction bursts into The Park each day to bring a thinking trap to life, in glorious, immersive technicolour.
Ooga Ooga
Sees everything in black and white.
Reveal
Ooga Ooga is our caveman host and if he has a superpower, it’s survival. He thinks fast – but only in Black & White: danger! safety! friend! foe! Ooga Ooga helps us to see how this way of thinking pushes us to extremes, sparks conflict, and hides nuance.
We learn to spot when our inner caveman takes the wheel and use questions to wrest back control - swapping black-and-white thinking for full-colour curiosity.
Socrates
Teaches us to mistrust certainty.
Reveal
Socrates is still remembered today as one of the smartest men to have lived. And yet he said, “the only thing I know is I know nothing.”
He understood that life is messy, contradictory, and that certainty can signal ignorance. With Socrates as our guide, we’ll learn to question certainty — our own and other people’s — and to embrace the power of an open, curious mind.
Egyptian Pyramid
Reveals the power, and danger, of stories.
Reveal
Stories have the power to entertain, teach, unite. And our host this week is an Egyptian pyramid: proof of what we can achieve when a story pulls us in the same direction.
But stories can mute our scepticism. We believe things because the story feels good — not because it's true.
Through playful challenges, we help the kids to pause at a magnetic story and ask smart questions before believing it.
After the Mystery Show, children enter The Socratic Playground: a world of games, stories and challenges where they learn to spot the thinking trap, question it, and defend against it — using the power of questions.
Big ideas. Big characters. Thinking habits for life.
— A day at the park —
What does a typical day look like at The Park?
Sessions run from 9am-4pm daily
(with extended hours available on request)
9:00
Mystery Guest Reveal
Our Mystery Guest brings comic panto energy to the start of each day, telling the next part of their story and bringing the week’s thinking trap to life.
9:30
Socratic Playground
A morning of games, mysteries and adventures, each one helping the kids recognise the week's thinking trap, wherever it hides. By Friday, they spot it a mile off.
13:00
Dragon Slaying
Questions are the weapon here, first to fend off the thinking trap, then to cut through to sharper thinking - and soon asking great questions becomes second nature.
14:15
Magic Maths
From dodgy statistics to compound effects and probability, kids use maths to spot patterns others miss — and catch the week's thinking trap from a whole new angle.
— Taking it in —
How do we make the learning stick?
We use 8 principles from psychology, memory science and habit formation to keep the learning alive long after the kids leave The Park:
#1 Thinking Together
In small group discussions each day, the children put the central message of the morning into their own words and explore how it can show up in their life.
#2 Focused repetition
Each week we go deep on just one thinking trap, building strong pattern recognition and helping the kids spot it a mile off in real life.
#3 Visual anchoring
The wild, whacky costumes of each Mystery Guest creates a vivid visual anchor for the idea behind the week, helping the message to stick.
#4 Environmental cues
Each day the kids bring things home - not to torture parents with more clobber but to keep the thinking alive with quotes on T-shirts, framed posters and other visual cues that spark the memories we want them to hold on to.
#5 Cue-response loops
The children practise responding to cues with questions - until questions start to fire automatically like a reflex.
#6 Story hooks
Each thinking trap is anchored in a story with vivid characters and Mystery Guests - because stories are so much more memorable than facts and stats on their own.
#7 Peak moments
Memory is shaped by extreme moments and so each day has a purposeful high point - something strange, surprising or sometimes slightly gross - but always memorable.
#8 Teaching it back
The best way to learn anything is to teach it. And so at the end of each week the children host a lesson for their parents to teach them what they have learned.
— Straight from the source —
What do the kids say?
The enjoyment of each week ranks equal to impact and we gather feedback from every child.
— Where & when —
Summer 2027
Dates and venues for summer 2027 will be confirmed early next year. Check back soon or get in touch to learn more, and sign up for our mailing list to get early access.
— The Grid —