Let’s tell the time to half past the hour
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What You Get
What You Get
This pack includes a complete set of ready-to-teach lessons that together form a coherent scheme of work, written and created by experienced primary teachers.
Each of the lessons within the pack contains:
- An easy-to-follow lesson plan (including plenary and assessment questions)
- An engaging slideshow for the teaching input
- A main activity with three-way differentiation to support adaptive teaching
- An alternative activity for flexibility and choice
- An overview (medium-term plan) showing the scheme contents at a glance
- An assessment grid to track learning and progress
Curriculum Coverage
Curriculum Coverage
Teacher Benefits
Teacher Benefits
- Save time and simplify your Maths planning
With every lesson clearly sequenced and ready to teach, our Maths schemes take the stress out of planning and ensure smooth progression from one objective to the next. - Ensure National Curriculum coverage
Each unit in our Year 1 Maths curriculum has been carefully designed to meet National Curriculum objectives, giving you complete confidence that every skill and concept is taught and revisited. - Support for every teacher, every class
Clear explanations and built-in differentiation make our Maths lessons easy to deliver for ECTs and experienced teachers alike, supporting adaptive teaching across a range of abilities. - Build confidence and fluency for all pupils
From reasoning and problem-solving to fluency practice, each lesson helps children develop mathematical understanding in engaging, hands-on ways that make learning stick.
Teach your Year 1 class to tell the time to half past the hour using this complete set of five lessons. The children will have the opportunity to discuss the different times of day as well as beginning to investigate the hands and face of an analogue clock. Challenge your class to master the tricky skill of drawing the hands on clock faces to show the different times using the supporting resources which come with this scheme.
This series of five ready-to-teach Year 1 time lessons provide all the resources you need to deliver these lessons, including a clear lesson plan, slideshow presentations for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources to support children as they become more confident in telling the time to half past the hour.
Morning, Afternoon and Evening
Remind your children of how they can use language to describe events and activities in the day. Teach them the names for different parts of the day, including morning, afternoon, evening and night. What activities do the children do at these times of day?
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Photo sheet
- Activity cards
O’clock
Help remind your class to read and say any o’clock time whilst exploring in more detail how the hour hand moves and looks for each time. They have the opportunity to play games or make their own o’clock clock to help them identify these times.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Template
- Photo sheet
- Differentiated worksheets
- Clock cards
- Time cards
Half past
Introduce your Year 1 class to the concept of telling time to the nearest half hour by focusing on the hour hand and its position as it shows half past the hour. Give them the opportunity to read, say and label times or play an active game as they match the times.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheet
- Time cards
- Photo sheet
- Clock cards
Drawing the time
Introduce your class to the tricky concept of drawing the hands on a clock face. Guide them through the placement of each hand and use supporting printable resources to help and challenge them with drawing the time.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Differentiated worksheets
- Game cards
- Blank clock faces
- Photo sheet
O’clock and half past
Give your class the opportunity to show off what they have learnt about telling the time to half past the hour as they play games based around o’clock and half past times. Alternatively they can practise and improve their speaking skills as they attempt to describe times to their partner to draw and guess.
What's included:
- Lesson plan
- Slides
- Activity ideas
- Game boards
- Blank clock faces
- Time cards
- Photo sheet
- Score Sheet
- Grid Sheet
Medium-Term Plan
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