Everything we do at The Park is deliberate.

Read more about our guiding principles, original research programmes and established learning science that informs what we do and what we dont.

  • Summer 2025 research programme

    In 2025 we recruited a group of 23 children aged 8 - 13 to participate in a year long research programme to help us to refine The Socratic Playground and make it even more impactful.

  • Learning science and what it teaches us

    The question “how can we make help kids learn more in less time - and make it stick?” is not a new one. Some of the most startling answers have been known since the 60s. But until now they’ve been trapped in academic literature.

  • Professor Wegerif from Cambridge University on the teaching of thinking

    I first met Prof Wegerif when my old firm asked him to share the nub of his research into how to think better, with FTSE 100 board directors. Read or watch what he said here.