The new Waid community campus is on track to open this year.
Pupils and staff are gearing up for the big move to their new state-of-the-art campus in the summer.
Fife Council, along with the Scottish Government, has invested £24.3 million in the Anstruther facility which will provide services for the whole community when it opens its doors.
Rector Iain Hughes said staff and pupils at Waid, which has been in its current home for 130 years, are very much looking forward to the move.
“Waid has been a community use school for over 25 years so we already have exceptional links with our local community and our facilities are well used by sports clubs and individuals.
“However, the largest part of the new building’s function will be to house up to 800 pupils and 54 teachers, plus community education and community learning development staff who will benefit from a fantastic new facility fit for learning in the 21st century,” he said.
The building has a variety of types of learning spaces and three new enterprise units, one for school enterprise activities and the other two, in a first for Fife, which can be leased to house small start-up businesses.
Programme manager Andrew Stokes said the new Waid “will be so much more than a school”.
“We’re making it easier for people to access community, leisure, culture and learning services in Fife.”
When it opens its doors, it will provide a range of services for the whole community including access to council services, public library, community, learning and sports facilities and classes supported by Fife College.
Police Scotland will also have a call point in the campus.
Work started in August 2015 and it’s now wind and watertight, with the internal spaces created.
The community campus model is a new way of working for the council and builds on the success of Fife’s first campus, the new Windmill Community Campus in Kirkcaldy which opened in August this year.
Community health and wellbeing spokeswoman Linda Erskine said: “It makes sense financially to move away from costly traditional ways of doing things.
“We are looking at how we can work more efficiently and effectively and improve services for local people at the same time.
“This includes focusing on how we manage community buildings across the kingdom.”
