Year 1 - Time

These active outdoor lessons make learning to tell the time fun and memorable. Through games, natural resources, and hands-on challenges, children build confidence with sequencing events, reading analogue clocks, and using time vocabulary in real-world contexts.

Lesson Plans

Organising events in time order

During this outdoor lesson children will be introduced to language related to time through a ball activity and sequence their experiences of the outdoor space in chronological order using natural resources.

Learning objective:

To organise events in time order

Comparing and describing time

Put time into context with this outdoor lesson; activities include recording & comparing time and describing events using the language of time – all whilst using movement to engage your learners!

Learning objective:

To compare and describe time

Representing hands and clock facess

Enable your children to experience an analogue clock in the physical form through this outdoor lesson. Using natural resources and chalk this lesson will secure your children’s understanding of the hour and minute hands.

Learning objective:

To represent hands and clock faces

Representing o'clock and half past

During this outdoor lesson your children will reuse clock faces to practise fluency in representing the time, use a ball game to practise reading the time and complete a challenge to identify any misconceptions.

Learning objective:

To represent time o’clock and half past

Telling the time to o'clock

Have your children apply their skills in telling the time outdoors by playing the classic game of ‘What time is Mr Wolf?’ and moving around your outdoor space to identify the time shown.

Learning objective:

To tell the time to o’clock and half past

Before you get started

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