Delayingformal lessons untilafter a child turns six, to allow them to focus onplay-basedlearning, sothose who struggle at theageof four or five are not put off for life.
"There's a very shrewd economic profit-based interest system here at play and there are people on the Egyptian side and in the government of Gaza who are finding ways to benefit from this structure."
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The play-based Foundation Phase for three to seven-year-olds was due to be used in primary schools across Wales from September.
Although hemiplegia cannot be cured, the charity HemiHelp's website says a lot can be done to minimise its effects - and much of that through play-based activities.
Although learning-by-discovery is being phased out of schools, the government seems prepared to accept that it is right for nursery pupils: ministers are said to have noted that in the successful education systems of Switzerland and Hungary, pupils start in the nursery with play-based education and then switch to traditional teaching at the age of six or seven.