Most of my career has been spent with the American air force working in its child development centres, where all the children's developmental needs are addressed through play and all the children are encouraged to experience the process rather than the end product of an activity.
These activities are always developmentally age-appropriate. We use something called the Marazon system, which was created in the United States and is now working worldwide through the USair force. It keys in on six main areas of child development, namely affective, social, creative, cognitive, language and physical development.
Our nursery is now up and running with it, and it is a system that our local social services seem quite happy with. It would be nice to see more nurseries use this approach and fewer still insisting on the old-fashioned and unimaginative worksheet approach that obviously bores and frustrates the children.
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