Telling the time

What should my child know? 

By the end of 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.
• Know the number of minutes in an hour and the number of hours in a day.

By the end of 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/read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute.
• Record/compare time in terms of seconds, minutes, hours; use vocabulary such as o’clock, a.m./p.m., morning, afternoon, noon, 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].

By the end of year 4:

• Convert between different units of measure [e.g. hour to minute].
• Read, write and convert time between analogue and digital 12- and 24-hour clocks.