 I think the University of Greenwich is one of the best universities to do early years because of the diversity of the course and the lectures are just amazing. Hi, my name is Heather Munn. I'm one of the senior lecturers here at Greenwich and I teach on the early years programme. I've been doing that for about five years now. It's a lovely place to teach and we get to know our students really well and I think that we're able to offer quite a unique experience here at Greenwich. It was more beneficial to come to the University of Greenwich also because of the diversity, because of the ease of getting to know the lecturers also because personally I need a lot of support through my education so I am able to get it easily here. I chose this course because I love working with children and each week I find something new about them and with new challenges comes new opportunities. So one of the things that we're really aware of is that we want academic practice to inform practice in settings. We really try hard to make those two hold hands with each other so you spend some of your time here with us in university about two days a week and then you go out into practice two days a week. So you're really able to see how those theories that we're learning about the educational content, the way that we think about children we're able to go and look for it in real children and say okay I saw this happening, how does this fit with what we're learning what was the same, what was different so I think it really helps in terms of building a reflective practitioner somebody who's really able to look at their own work, look at their practice see things from children's point of view because that's really what we want. One practitioners who are empathetic towards children can see their perspective, are able to have fun and to enjoy themselves and also to think about children in holistic ways. From my placement I've seen that as well as me making a positive contribution I can learn a lot from the children. In future I would like to work with children and not just children but also their parents, carers, staff and educators as well.