Thank you so much to Wilma Duff who got in touch recently to share a super photograph from 1953. We hope you enjoy looking at it as much as we have.

Top row: Maureen Brabender, Annabel Shedden, Mamie McIlwraith and Mary Gemmil

Next row: ?, ?,  Billy Logan, Billy Binns, John Dearie and Ian Muirhead

Next row: Jean Paterson, Sandra Wardrop, ?,  ?,  Jim Caldwell, May ?, Helen Curdie

Front row: ?,  Wilma Duff, Anne Marshall, Janice McRae, Fiona McKay, Anna McCulloch, ?,   ?

When you look at this map of the same area but in the 1950s, you can see why there was becoming a need for a new school in Kilmarnock. Grammar School was ageing and there were many other schools in the town centre, such as Loanhead Primary and Bentinck Primary. By the 1970s the decision was made to knock down Grammar School and build the first Gargieston Primary School at the opposite end of Dundonald Road, where more houses were being constructed.

It was in 1951 that Grammar School adopted their school badge.

The KGS in our current badge was kept from Kilmarnock Grammar School when it closed in 1975. The words Gargieston Primary School were then added to combine the two schools history.