Tools of the trade

The Marazon approach combines learning through play with a rigorous assessment system, reports Mary Evans 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...