An Oxfordshire nursery is championing an American educational system which goes back to basics by encouraging children to learn through play while using modern assessment techniques to plan future activities.
Laura Oliver came across the Marazon system when working in the child development centre on an American air-force base in England. When she became manager of the Manor House Nursery, Merton, near Bicester last May, she introduced the system there and it is now the only civilian nursery in the UK using this approach.
The Marazon system is the brainchild of Renee Marazon, a teacher from Toledo, Ohio. She created it in response to her growing unease at lecturing her teaching students to focus on the whole child's development while asking them to set goals that could only be measured by specific child behaviours.
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