Year One

Time Flies When You're Having Fun: Year Ones Dive into the World of Telling Time!

Our Year Ones are having a blast diving into the world of telling the time! Recently, we have been learning about the features of an analogue clock and how we use these to read the time. Students have been practising reading and creating 'o'clock' and 'half past' times, mastering both analogue and digital clocks along the way. 

This week we began talking about the various activities in our school and home lives that take hours, days, weeks and months. 

Students have been having so much fun experiencing time and here are some of their reflections:

Student reflections

• I learnt that there is o’clock times and half past times - Ryder
• The small hand always tell me the hour time and the long hand tells me the minutes - Minahil
• The minute hand is always on o’clock but the hour hand changes to make different o’clocks - Harry
• For half past time the minute hand is always pointing to the 6 - Peyton
• The clock doesn’t have real hands like humans, they’re clock hands - Aaliyah
• When it’s half past, the minute hand points at the 6 but the hour hand is pointing between the hour numbers - Remy
• A whole day is 24 hours - Leandro
• School is 6 hours long - Kate
• Sleeping over night takes hours - Angus 
• We’ve learnt how to make a thirty time- Noah
• We’ve learnt about the hands - Hrik
• The minute hand is long and the hour hand is short - Easton 

This term students have begun using Mathletics during class. Students now have their login details in their home reading satchels which will allow them to access it from home. They have access to a range of activities covering all curriculum areas which students can independently practise at home. 

Emma Gallagher, Nicola Veneris, Jemma Strbac Low, Carole Upton and Sarah Groves

The Year One Teaching Team