Year 1 Position and Direction: lesson and practice

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

• Use the words above, below, top, middle and bottom to say where something is
• Use the words next to, between, left and right to describe a row
• Say which shape is in front and which is behind
• Describe moves forwards, backwards, up and down
• Know whole, half, quarter and three-quarter turns
• Turn an arrow clockwise and anticlockwise on a clock face

You should already know

• Counting to 10 and one more or one less (Chapter 1)
• Counting on from a number (Chapter 1)
• Names and sides of 2-D shapes (Chapter 3)

Where this leads

• Halves and quarters of shapes (Year 1 Chapter 10)
• Telling the time to the hour (Year 1 Chapter 13)