I have been thinking about this - where to sleep -and as a reflective practitioner har har

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I remember seeing a cot with a toddler sleeping space underneath, which might suit my practice.

Does anyone
1 know what I am talking about
2 use one - are they any good
3 can you find me one to have a look at online, as I can't find any, probably because I am not using the right words in my google search.

Please ?

TIA

i like a challenge, and, while i have no idea what you are on about, I can imagine it, so have been googling various things and come up with nothing like it... sorry. only bunk campbeds

if you had a cotbed on the highest setting, would there not be enough space to put a mattress underneath? or have i got the wrong end of the stick?

I have seen a photo of it - a purpose-built wooden cot with a sleeping space with a mattress underneath it.

Thanks for having a go !

yes I have seen them to you are not imagining it!

My brain hurts from trying to remember the name of them.

I've googled away and got nowhere, perhaps just look at all the expensive daycare nursery furniture makers?

i've seen them too, used by nurseries i believe! you are not going mad!

not what your after, but found this scroll down for cot on drawers

I've found bunk bed cots in the US!

maybe he could make you one

They are always advertised in Who Minds magazine if that helps.

At an EYFS course I was on recently I was discussing sleeping spaces with some children's centre practitioners, they had decided to free up space by not having beds/mats for toddlers but letting them sleep "where they fell". Tempting? TBH I do this now anyway.

Under age of 6 months I have a travel cot set up upstairs, but rare I need it.

at your link, Claire (not the bloke, obv, but the work)

ooooh sleep where they fell

I know exactly what you are talking about! I saw one at the Hampshire Baby show.
I have searched online but haven't found one yet Only thing i came up with was a co-sleeper which is nothing like you are looking for!!

when you remember let me know because it's bugging me now as well!

Oh, you big old reflective practitioner you!

Talking about RP

I am keeping a record of my rp

It has 4 columns
What is the problem/situation
How can I resolve it
sign & date it has been changed
Amendments - for when the fix doesn't work

I think it will be really useful for Inspections as it is documentary evidence of how you have changed/improved

shanticot

Found it, thank you Kay was in Who Minds.

I knew I'd seen'em and was not not Going Mad

Katy - yes, I am thinking about creating something like that, would be really useful when SWOTting

SWOTing???

SWOT analysis (get me) where you look at your practice and work out

Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats

It's a technique that I bet you do without realising

Get you

Did it on my course - i just didn't connect it to RP

God, yes, connect it to RP, OFSTED will like it

I saw it at the NCMA conference in Torquay, I will find the details. Horribly expensive, they didn't sell any!

Sorry, shssould read the whole thread!