O’clock & Half Past
Reading and setting clocks, days of the week and months of the year.
Choose what to practise
Each round is 10 questions, and takes 5 to 10 minutes.
Finished
Reading and setting clocks, days of the week and months of the year.
Choose what to practise
Each round is 10 questions, and takes 5 to 10 minutes.
Finished
The curriculum asks Year 1 children to tell the time to the hour and half past, and to draw the hands to show both.
Alongside the clock it asks for the days of the week and the months of the year, in order.
It also asks for the language of time: before and after, morning and afternoon, yesterday and tomorrow.
This game practises the parts that need to become automatic: reading the clock, setting the hands, and putting the days and months in order.
The rest belongs in conversation, so we leave it there: how long until tea, which day comes after Thursday, what happened yesterday.
Children who are ready for more can take quarter past and quarter to in Time to 15 Minutes.
At o’clock the two hands agree. The minute hand points straight up at the 12, and the hour hand points at the number your child says.
Half past is the minute hand pointing straight down at the 6. It looks the same at every hour, which is what makes it the natural second step.
At half past, the hour hand has crept halfway between two numbers. A child reading half past 4 will usually say “half past 5”, because the hour hand now sits nearer the 5.
Name it out loud: the hour hand tells you the hour it has left, not the one it is heading for.
Year 2 moves the minute hand round in fives: quarter past, quarter to, and every five-minute step between. It also asks for the minutes in an hour and the hours in a day.
Year 3 reads the clock to the exact minute, adds the 24-hour clock and Roman numerals on the dial, and begins measuring how long things take.
The step that catches children out is direction, not numbers: past counts on from the 12, and to counts back. Same dial, opposite way round.
Time to 5 Minutes takes the same clock into Year 2: the minute hand moves in fives, past and to the hour.
The Telling the Time path lays out the whole journey, Year 1 to Year 3, in the order that builds.