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âThe children decidedâ: Schools join quest for better gauge of student progress
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On one level it was a straightforward play-based assignment for the year 1 students of Princes Hill Primary School: they were to design and make a collection of toys to be given to asylum seeker children living in Australian detention centres.
But it was also radical, in that the teacher hadnât set the children any tasks. They had come up with the ideas themselves in a series of classroom discussions about the notion of play and how different cultures do it differently.