THE £2million extension to Carnegie Primary School has been completed, Fife Council has confirmed.

Last August, the Press broke the news that Dunfermline's newest primary was set to get four new classrooms, to be fully funded by developers following the re-zoning of the Shepherd Offshore site in Halbeath.

The area allocated for employment land at the Shepherd Offshore development had been cut by almost a third, from commercial to mixed use, which provided additional housing land.

The council previously confirmed the extension was needed to provide additional capacity to support the area of housing development and that it had anticipated an increase in the school roll.

However, despite more homes being built in the area, the local authority also said there were no plans for a fourth primary school in the Dunfermline eastern expansion.

Carnegie Primary, established in 2009, started life as a virtual school, sharing a campus with Inverkeithing Primary, before moving to its new home in August 2011.

When it opened, then First Minister Alex Salmond called it “the best school in Scotland”.

The roll has also grown from a virtual school of 80 to 610 pupils and 160 nursery children.

Fife Council will mark officially the project's completion on July 29.