Half-Past Time Unit – Year 1

The Half-Past Time Unit gives Year 1 students a structured path from first explanation to independent practice. Clear teaching slides introduce the minute hand, hour hand and :30 digital notation before students apply the concept through practical clock-making, sorting, matching, bingo and written tasks.

Students repeatedly connect analogue clocks, digital times and worded times. The activities reinforce that the minute hand points to 6 while the hour hand sits halfway between two numbers. Worked examples and guided questions help make this relationship visible before students complete worksheets and assessment tasks.

The editable teaching presentation and quiz use native PowerPoint text and editable clock diagrams. Printable answer pages place red responses in the matching student spaces for efficient marking. The two-part assessment and concise rubric help teachers check whether students can recognise, represent and explain half-past times.

What's included

• 28-page Unit Plan PDF with Sukindi cover and Table of Contents
• Editable PowerPoint presentation: Half-Past Time (18 slides)
• Editable PowerPoint quiz: Half-Past Time Quiz (24 slides; 10 questions plus answers)
• Classroom display: What Does Half Past Mean?
• Classroom display: Half-Past Clock Cards
• Hands-on activity: Make a Half-Past Clock
• Cut-apart resource: Half-Past Time Cards
• Sorting game: O’Clock or Half Past?
• Matching game: Half-Past Match-Up
• Worksheet 1: Read Half-Past Times – Practice A
• Worksheet 1: Read Half-Past Times – Practice B
• Worksheet 2: Draw the Hands – Practice A
• Worksheet 2: Draw the Hands – Practice B
• Worksheet 3: Match Analogue and Digital
• Worksheet 3: Match Digital and Words
• Game: Half-Past Bingo – Board A
• Game: Half-Past Bingo – Board B
• Half-Past Bingo Caller Cards
• Activity: Doughnut Delivery Times
• Assessment: Half-Past Time Check – Part A
• Assessment: Half-Past Time Check – Part B
• Red-answer pages for all six worksheet pages and both assessment parts
• Half-Past Learning Rubric
• Combined Preview PDF

Learning focus

• Identify the minute and hour hands.
• Understand that half past is 30 minutes after the hour.
• Read and make analogue half-past times.
• Read and write digital :30 times.
• Match analogue, digital and worded representations.
• Explain how the hands are positioned at half past.

Classroom use

Use the presentation for explicit teaching and guided practice. Follow with the clock-building activity, sorting or matching games, and bingo for collaborative reinforcement. Use the varied worksheets for independent practice, the quiz for whole-class review, and the assessment and rubric to record learning.

File formats and counts

PDF and Microsoft PowerPoint (.pptx)

Unit Plan PDF: 28 pages

Teaching presentation: 18 slides

Quiz: 24 slides

Answer pages: included

Teacher benefits

• One coherent sequence from explanation to assessment.
• Multiple representations of half-past time.
• A mix of whole-class, small-group and independent tasks.
• Editable presentation and quiz text.
• Ready-to-check red answer pages.

Digital product and licence

This is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped. Purchase permits use by one teacher with their own students. Redistribution, resale, file sharing and public posting are not permitted.