Setting primary science in an everyday context supports learning in a number of ways. Exploring the science associated with everyday people, places and materials helps to access pupils' prior knowledge and experience and thus facilitates a more constructivist and pupil-centred form of pedagogy. This account looks at various examples from the primary school and considers how, in addition to supporting learning in science, this approach may develop skills in numeracy, literacy and ICT. It also suggests how the teaching of science at key stages 3, 4 and 5 (ages 11-19) could be enriched by making closer connections with everyday life, particularly in the area of science enquiry