Focuses on children experiencing the familiar world through enquiry and investigation. They are given experiences to increase their curiosity about the world around them, and to learn to demonstrate care, responsibility and respect for other living things and their environment.

The Cambridge Science curriculum contains a range of teaching objectives divided into four stages: scientific enquiry, the study of life processes, the study of materials and the study of forces and motions, sound, light and dark, electricity, rocks, plants and animals, senses and health.