Icknield Walk First School is a larger than average first school located in Royston, Hertfordshire, England. It has approximately 335 registered students and has an overall 'Outstanding' Ofsted rating. The school runs the Rise and Shine Breakfast Club for its pupils and hosts both the Fair Play After School / Holiday Club and the Queens Road Playgroup. It is a member of the Royston Area Schools Partnership (RASP), which comprises the other seven first schools in Royston and the surrounding villages. History Building work, with an estimated budget of £68,400, began in 1965 on the site of Royston's former Militia Camp. The school was initially intended to open in April 1966 as a junior school for 320 children but following Hertfordshire County Council’s decision to introduce a three-tier system of first, middle and upper schools it was resolved that only infant school age pupils would be admitted when it opened. The school opened at the start of the summer term of 1966 with 129 pupils, and was the first in Hertfordshire for the five- to nine-year-old age group. A playgroup opened at the school in early 1967. In its early years, the school accommodated the pupils of Royston's Studlands Rise First School, which was under construction. In 1986, pupils from the school took part in the BBC Domesday Project in which they created a contemporary picture of their lives. Icknield Walk's contributors recorded details about their classes and the school's summer fete, of which one pupil wrote: "There was a Sinclair C5 to ride in. It is battery powered and the handle bars are under your legs. There were other rides we could go on too, there was a Chuffy Train and a tractor ride". In 2011, the project was digitised as part of BBC Domesday Reloaded. Icknield Walk First School has hosted the independently run Fair Play After School / Holiday Club since 2005. On Friday 28 April 2006, the school celebrated the 40th anniversary of its opening. Pupils and staff dressed up in fashions from the period since the school first opened its doors, and a new outdoor classroom was officially opened by the MP for Royston, Oliver Heald. The then headteacher, Marilyn Jones, said: "The celebrations went beautifully and the children and staff looked fantastic. We had hippies, punks and new romantics. We even had a few Elvis Presleys and Marilyn Monroes. The children and the teachers