Time from the basics to GCSE

This worksheet is for GCSE students with the option of printing just the pages you require for your class. Time is a funny topic to cover in my experience. You find some students need the challenge of using bus time tables and working out flight times while some struggle with the clock face.

• I have put together a 4 page worksheet where less able students can draw the clock hands for quarter past and 20 to etc… and concentrate on converting between 12 and 24 hour clock.

• Your better able students can focus on calculating time between two given times. This also includes working out time of arrival and delays to trains etc…

• Your most able students will be challenged with bus time tables, making appointments and GCSE style questions involving time zone changes and flights.

With some KS3 classes I have needed a whole lesson with students needing the full range in one lesson. In more able KS4 lessons I have used the last page as a homework or starter.

I was conscious of not making the start of the worksheet look to childish as this is a stigma in some mainstream secondary schools. The first two pages were inspired by middle set year 10 students who couldn’t tell the time easily and this was pitched perfectly for them.