Time - Telling the Time to 5 Minutes - Planning

The Year 4 summer curriculum on Time focuses on teaching students to read, write, and convert time between analogue and digital formats, including both 12-hour and 24-hour clocks. Students also tackle problems involving conversions from hours to minutes, minutes to seconds, and larger units such as years to months and weeks to days. The key vocabulary for the unit includes terms like 'measure', 'unit of time', 'convert', 'minute', 'second', 'hour', 'equivalent', 'times table', 'day', 'week', 'month', 'year', 'interval', 'analogue', 'digital', '12-hour time', '24-hour time', 'AM', and 'PM'. The lesson's objective is to teach telling the time to five-minute intervals using various resources such as interactive clocks, mini clocks, worksheets, and presentations. The lesson begins with a recap of previous learning and quick-fire questions to assess fluency in basic time concepts.

In the practical segment of the lesson, students use an interactive clock to count in fives while moving the minute hand, focusing initially on 'past' times and then on 'to' times, with special attention to quarter past and half past, as well as quarter to. This helps students to recognise these common intervals and their special names. The lesson also includes activities where students practise reading 'past' and 'to' times and explaining their reasoning. Differentiated tasks cater to various levels of understanding, from working towards fluency in reading the time to five minutes, to achieving greater depth by reading and recording time in both words and digits. Key questions and common misconceptions are addressed throughout the lesson, ensuring that students correctly identify the minute and hour hands and understand their significance in telling the time.