the best summer of their life Give your children the habits and the skills to take charge of their future while they build the memories that childhood is meant for
Each day is framed around a series of adventures
Building dens, running free, climbing trees, laughing hard
Mornings are spent in The Socratic Playground - an evidence-based programme to build critical thinking skills and oracy
Teaching kids to ask brilliant questions, stay curious and speak up
A 90 minute intermission each day is for personalised, data driven tutoring to boost grades
Academic firepower that keeps every door open
Each day ends with Pick & Mix hour - oracy, sport, music, art, cookery, drama
Building mastery in the skill that brings them joy
The Park takes its name from Plato’s Academy Park
founded two thousand years ago in ancient Greece.
For shorthand you could call it a school — but it was nothing like the schools we know today.
It wasn’t a classroom of stone walls but a park filled with olive trees where young minds could move, play and learn under the open sky.
And no, they weren’t just sitting around stroking their beards and thinking deep thoughts. Plato’s model mixed physical exercise, mathematics and critical thinking — training body and brain together.
Plato founded the Academy Park to pass on what he’d learned from Socrates, the father of critical thinking.
Plato taught Aristotle at The Academy Park, who went on to teach Alexander the Great — not a bad alumni list.
