PITCH perfect facilities at the new £220 million Dunfermline Learning Campus are going to make a "massive difference" and give kids a better sporting chance. 

That's according to the principal teachers of PE from St Columba's and Woodmill as they joined pupils in getting a first look at what the new site has to offer. 

The two high schools will share the 58 acre campus at Halbeath with Fife College and are due to open in August 2024, with the college set to welcome students in 2025. 

Ross Harkness, PE principal teacher at St Columba's, said: "It's all about opportunities. The facilities we've seen today look like they're going to be excellent. 

"We're going to have a lot more of them, they're going to be of a higher standard and it's going to allow us as a department to offer pupils far more opportunities to succeed. 

"Everything I've seen today is going to be a massive step forward and we're really looking forward to starting in August 2024."

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His counterpart at Woodmill, Stevie Thomson, commented: "I think it will make a massive difference. Already you can see the four kids with me today, the lift it's given them. 

"When you bring out a new piece of equipment like a new football at the current school, it's shoulders back, chest out, proud to get the chance to use that new piece of equipment. 

"That's going to be a massive lift for their motivation and enthusiasm in the new building. I think it will just make an incredible difference."

Dunfermline Press: Class act. An aerial view of the work in progress at Dunfermline Learning Campus. Photo: Fife Council.Class act. An aerial view of the work in progress at Dunfermline Learning Campus. Photo: Fife Council. (Image: Fife Council)

And he added: "When you've got all mod cons and space and the selection of facilities that we're going to have, it's going to be phenomenal."

The main contractor for the schools, BAM Construction, are making progress and last month a major milestone was reached.

A 'topping out' ceremony - to mark the building reaching its highest point - was held at the campus with pupils helping education secretary Jenny Gilruth MSP and councillors to lay a cement plinth.