In this year's Nursery World student essay competition, we asked participants to write on the theme of 'caring for birth to threes'. Here we reprint in full the winning entry, with extracts from the two runners-up. Congratulations!
Jools Page
1st prize - 1,000
PhD student at the University of Sheffield, School of Education Throughout 20 years of working with and for young children I have always wanted to spend time with the youngest, those under three. I recall once being told that my skills would be 'wasted' with the babies and I should stay with the three- to five-year-olds. Looking back, I can see that this intended compliment came from thinking which suggested that older children needed 'brighter' adults to work with them (I shall return to this later).
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