Educational overview
Understanding timetables combines real-world reading with elapsed-time reasoning, a practical skill for planning and independence.
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School Fair Timetable
Interpret a fictional school-fair schedule with five activities and answer questions about durations, time gaps and what happens at a given time.
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Learning objective
Build confidence in time and timetables by practising find activity start and end times and compute time intervals in minutes.
What children will practise
- Find activity start and end times
- Compute time intervals in minutes
- Use a timetable to locate an activity
How to use this worksheet
Read the schedule headings and highlight each time mentioned in a question. Encourage the child to count forward in five- or ten-minute jumps before recording the answer.
Parent / Teacher tips
- Use an analogue clock drawing to model a time interval.
- Confirm the questions refer to the fictional timetable, not the child's own schedule.
Common mistakes to watch for
- Confusing the start and end columns.
- Subtracting minutes across hour boundaries without accounting for the full hour.
Extension activity
Write a three-event timetable for an imaginary holiday and ask a friend to calculate the gaps.
What’s included
- 1 activity-only PDF page
- A4 and US Letter download options
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