One of the aims of primary education, as suggested by the Cambridge Primary Review, should be, 'Exploring, knowing, understanding and making sense'. It should give the children 'the opportunity to encounter, explore and engage with the wealth of human experience and the different ways through which humans make sense of the world and act upon it'. Over the past two years, the author has been raising the profile of science at Banstead Prep School in Surrey. This article explains what the author did and how science has moved up the teaching agenda to provide the children with that greater 'wealth of human experience'.