Learning to tell the time One of the most important things children learn is to tell the time. The new programme of study expects more of children at a younger age than before and it is worth taking a peep at what children are expected to do in each year up to Year 4. In year 1 pupils should be taught to: •    tell the time to the hour and half past the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times In year 2 •    compare and sequence intervals of time •    tell and write the time to five minutes, including quarter past/to the hour and draw the hands on a clock face to show these times In Year 3 •    tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12-hour and 24-hour clocks •    estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes, hours and o’clock; use vocabulary such as a.m./p.m., morning, afternoon, noon and midnight •    know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year •    compare durations of events, for example to calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks In Year 4 •    read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12 and 24-hour clocks •    solve problems involving converting from hours to minutes; minutes to seconds; years to months; weeks to days We have an excellent range of worksheets covering all of the above and have just published three new sets. The first two, for Year 2, take a closer look at the order of months of the year and days of the week. Converting minutes to hours, minutes to seconds is quite hard and can be found in Year 4 – a good knowledge of the 6x table really helps with this. Year 2 Time Year 3 Time Year 4 Time