Half Past Year 1 Time Unit Plan

Unit overview

• 20-slide editable PowerPoint presentation: Half Past
• colour Understanding Half Past classroom display
• Half-Past Reference Cards
• Matching Pairs analogue-clock and time-card game
• Race to Half Past board and challenge-card game
• five worksheets: Read Half-Past Times, Draw the Hands, Match Three Ways, Which Hour Comes Next?, and My Half-Past Day
• answer pages for all five worksheets
• 22-slide editable PowerPoint quiz with 10 question-and-answer pairs
• two-page Half-Past Checkpoint assessment
• answer pages for both assessment pages
• Half Past Year 1 Rubric with five achievement levels
• 22-page printable unit plan PDF
• combined 64-page/slides Preview PDF

Help Year 1 students build a clear, practical understanding of half-past time. This complete unit teaches that half an hour is 30 minutes, the long minute hand points to 6, and the short hour hand sits halfway between two numbers. Students then practise reading, matching, writing and drawing half-past times in analogue, digital and word forms.

The editable presentation supports explicit whole-class teaching and guided practice. Colour reference resources and two games make the concept visible and hands-on. Five low-ink worksheets provide a purposeful progression into independent work, while the quiz, two-page assessment, answer pages and five-level rubric make checking understanding straightforward.

Learning focus

• recognise half an hour as 30 minutes
• identify the minute hand and hour hand
• read half-past times on analogue clocks
• match analogue, digital and word representations
• draw clock hands to show half-past times
• identify the next hour at half past
• connect half-past times with familiar daily events

Classroom use

Use the presentation to model each idea, display the reference resources during guided practice, rotate the games through maths groups, assign the worksheets for supported or independent practice, and use the quiz and assessment to check understanding.

Formats and page count

PDF and editable Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx). The core files contain a 22-page unit plan, a 20-slide presentation and a 22-slide quiz: 64 pages/slides in total.

Answer keys

Answer pages are included for all five worksheets and both assessment pages. The quiz places each answer immediately after its matching question.

Digital product and licence

This is a digital teaching resource; no physical item is supplied. It may be used by the purchasing teacher with their own classes. Please do not share, resell, upload or redistribute the files.