ELC Application Poster 2024-25

Early Learning and Childcare 

Application Procedures – January 2024

✓Was your child born between 1st March 2021 and 28th February 2022?
✓ Do you want your child to attend a Fife Council Nursery
between August 2024 and July 2025?

If your child does not currently attend nursery (academic year 2023-
24)
or
if your child has a 2-year-old placement
or
if you are looking to change your child’s current placement type you
must complete an application form online at
www.fife.gov.uk/earlyyears between 4th – 31st January 2024.

Additional information on your options are available from any Fife
Council early learning and childcare facility (nursery/school) or can
be found online at www.fife.gov.uk/earlyyears

You will be able to apply for a funded early learning and childcare
place at your preferred private nursery, playgroup or childminder, if
they are in partnership with Fife Council. Applications should be
made directly to these individual establishments and services.

Have your say …….where do you hang out or play? (For Action)

Thanks to children and families all over Fife, over 1300 responses were received to Fife’s online survey about play and where children and young people hang out in Fife.  Some of you may also have taken part in one of our play sessions.

We have been asked to share a link to Fife’s interactive story map about the sufficiency of outdoor play in Fife.

Fife’s Play Sufficiency Assessment

This will be submitted to the Scottish Government early next year and it will be used to plan how Fife improve the quality and accessibility of outdoor play in Fife.

Walking Bus 

We are very fortunate to have a volunteer led Walking Bus that operates from Monday to Friday. A Walking Bus operates in a similar way to a normal bus in that we collect children from agreed places at agreed times but, different from a bus, we walk! Each bus is supervised by at least two adults and there will normally be a qualified first-aider on the route. School staff also join the bus sometimes!

The bus is available for all children, P1 to P7. Each bus can take up to 16 passengers, 8 per adult on the route. Places should be booked in advance.

Bus routes

We currently operate five buses each week.;

Monday and Friday. 

• Pick up at 8.30am from the bus stop near the Harbour Drive roundabout.

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

• Pick up between 8.30am and 8.40am from the Library

Places can be booked using the Donibristle Walking Bus Facebook page. Requests to book a place must be made by 8pm the evening before.

Bus Travel

Stagecoach operate a service bus that stops and collects from Morlich Crescent at times appropriate to the start and finish of our school day. This bus is for children who are in catchment but live more than 2 miles from school. However, any child can travel using the free bus pass.

At 3pm pupils taking the bus home will meet a member of staff and are escorted to the bus to ensure that they are seated safely before the bus leaves.

The bus journey is not supervised by school staff and therefore pupils need to be responsible when travelling independently.  We have been asked by the bus company to promote no eating or drinking on the bus, so we would encourage you to explain these responsibilities to your child.

Bus Timetable – October 2023

• • Inverkeithing, Inverkeithing High School                 08:33
  • Hillend, Hillend Main Street, adj 19                          08:43
  • St Davids, St Davids St Davids                                      08:47
  • Dalgety Bay, Dalgety Bay Parish Church                   08:52
  • Dalgety Bay, Dalgety Bay Donibristle                         08:55

• • Dalgety Bay, Dalgety Bay Donibristle                         15:05
  • Dalgety Bay, Dalgety Bay Shopping                           15:07
  • St Davids, St Davids St Davids                                      15:11
  • Hillend, Hillend Main Street, adj 10a                        15:16
  • Inverkeithing, Inverkeithing High School                 15:23