TEMPO: Time, always on the move, one of life’s earliest challenges is to describe… a moment … in time…. OK drop the big music… it’s giving me a headache… all I’m saying is, if people ask
VOX POP:What time is it ?
TEMPO:…or….
VOX POP:How long’s it going to take?
TEMPO:You need to know, so me… I’m Tempo by the way… and my good friend Sabrina, a fabulous upcycler, are going to help you get time….well and truly told
VOX POP – GROUP:Round the Clock !
SABRINA:Do you like? It’s almost done…
TEMPO:Sabreeeeeeena!!!
SABRINA:I’m busy
TEMPO:You had a phone call earlier. I left you a note by the spanners…
SABRINA:Oh …. Tempo this note is tiny…
TEMPO: It might be small but it’s got it all…
It says: Please tell Miss Sabrina Grant…that she has made it to the final of the Rap competition.
SABRINA:Really? Yes!! It says all that here?
TEMPO:And there’s more.
To win the final you must rap more words in one minute than anyone else. You have one month to prepare as the final is on the 15t of… blah blah blah… and the rest….
SABRINA:Best message eva! Once upon a time /Twice upon a time / gonna rap a thousand words if I can find the time
TEMPO:Do you know how many words you can rap in one minute?
SABRINA:Eh… 20? A hundred?
TEMPO:Do you know how long a minute IS?
SABRINA:Yeh yeh…maybe … like
TEMPO:Sabrina needs to be absolutely certain how long a minute is if she wants to win this competition…
SABRINA:There! That long? No…. a bit more…
TEMPO:Many humans find guessing how long one minute lasts rather difficult indeed…
INSERT – VOX POPS:
Em……
Um……
Eh…. I don’t actually know
I don’t think a minute’s very long, but I usually play tyg and hide and seek
On Remembrance Day, we had to keep silent for one minute, to remember all the soldiers who died in World War
On Remembrance Day…. We had to do a one minute silence….How long did the one minute silence last
One minute
SABRINA:Interesting examples – we keep a minute’s silence to show respect. But what does a minute look like on the clock?
TEMPO: Bring on the giant park clock…
TEMPO:The minute hand measures the minutes on the clock.
SABRINA:When the minute hand moves from one little line. . to the next little line… that shows that one minute has passed… and when it moves to the next line… another minute has passed. There are 60 of these lines, or minutes, round the clock, so the minute hand moves 60 times from one line to the next moving all the way round in one hour.
TEMPO:So! The question is people, what can you do in one minute?
INSERT – VOX POPS:
In one minute, I can make 10 snowballs – 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
In a minute, I can do my hair with gel and a comb
In a minute, I’d probably do 60 star jumps, because I think every star jump is one second
(3 Star Jumps)
In a minute I can write Tempo’s name 18 times
In one minute I can build a pencil tower this high
I could read one page of a book in a minute
In a minute I could do about fifteen tick tocks
33, 34, 35 … stop, that’s one minute
SABRINA:
Got it, that gives me a good idea of how long a minute is… Right TEMPO, if I rap for one minute – will you count the words?
TEMPO:I will be frankly magnificent, but to be extra sure we should measure the minute in two ways… using a sandtimer and a clock… SABRINA:PLAN! Clock – check…. Sandtimer…
TEMPO:Mmm not that one – that’s a 15 minute timer . . Which is the 1 minute timer?
SABRINA:Gotcha! OK TEMPO are you ready?
SABRINA:
TICK TICK TICK WOO
Once upon a time,
Twice upon a time
I tried to rap a thousand words
but couldn’t find the rhyme
to make a rap,
that could adapt,
to fit my tongue twisting stories in a rhyme that could attract
A sixty second
monumental tale of words
that could achieve a world record
That's impeccable, incredible,
that’s practically edible
TICK TICK TICK WOO
What about a minute,
what’s in it?
There’s sixty seconds
From the end
to the beginning,
I’m winning,
the battle
to rattle off as many connotations of a time,
TICK TICK TICK WOO
And still possess the kind of rap that will impress,
I digress
I don't know where my head is
Can everybody help me out?
TICK TICK TICK WOO
In fifteen seconds time
I will be announcing that I’m trouncing
A world record in expressing what I'm messing with and in a minute I’ll get it.
TICK TICK TICK WOO
Round the clock round the clock……
TICK TICK TICK BOOM!
How’d I do Tempo ?
TEMPO:
Wow Sabrina, you are amazing
… mm mm from the A to the zing Whoa… y’all… check it out
SABRINA:How many words…. How many how many words?
TEMPO:The number of words you rapped in one minute 180 !!
SABRINA:Yes …180! That’s brilliant!
TEMPO:D'you think if you practise it again we could get to 200?!
SABRINA:Maybe after a large cup of tea…
TEMPO:A Cup of Tea!!! – that’s not very hip and hop
SABRINA:It’s just hip hop Tempo ……
TEMPO:No it’s hip and hop… I know, cos I’m from the streets… it was tough times for us – we had to have hip and hop…because you can’t just hop without the hip, you can’t just hip without the hop… you know what I’m saying…. Come back… you don’t know what you talking about… man… you can’t even do the signs… alright… see you later… take care…
Video summary
Sabrina is entering a competition to rap the most words in one minute. But how long does a minute last?
The children remember they stay silent for one minute on Remembrance Day.
They have lots of suggestions of things they can do in just one minute – like 60 star jumps – or writing Tempo’s name 18 times.
Sabrina looks at the minute hand moving on the clock, and identifies the 60 little lines marking the minutes.
She uses a sand timer and a clock to time her minute-long rap.
From BBC Series Round the Clock.
Teacher Notes
Key Stage 1:
Show the children a one-minute timer and see if they can be silent for one minute.
What else can they do in one minute? Whose name can you write the most times in one minute? Why?
Help children to recognise that if the name is short, it is quicker to write.
Ask children if they can count the little lines round a clock. How many are there all together? How many are there between 1 and 2, or 2 and 3? Once they have had a chance to investigate, tell them that there are 60 lines round the clock because there are 60 minutes in one hour.
Key Stage 2:
Ask children to estimate one minute.
Ask the class to stand up with their eyes shut and sit down when they think that one minute is up. Once all the children have sat down, discuss the strategies for estimating.
Did they count to 60 or use their heartbeat? This could be related to science.
Ask children to measure how many times their pulse beats in one minute. Now jump up and down for one minute. Measure their pulse again. How many beats now? Why is it faster?
This clip will be relevant for teaching Maths at KS1 and KS2 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and First and Second Level in Scotland.
How long is a second? video
Sabrina learns how to measure a second using one-elephant two-elephant.
How long is five minutes. video
The children make Tempo a clock birthday cake, and use the 5 fingers on their hands to count the intervals between the numbers.
How long is quarter of an hour? video
Sabrina needs to make a 15 minute long video of Tempo for a talent show, we learn how long 15 minutes actually is.
How long is half an hour? video
The children give examples of things in their daily lives that take just half an hour.
How long is an hour? video
It takes Sabrina an hour to get to work on the train – what can she get done on the journey?
Using clocks and calendars. video
Children tell us what dates are in their calendars, and Sabrina makes herself a clock.
A song about time video
Sabrina and Tempo perform a lively song to recap what’s already been learnt about days, calendars and the hands of the clock.
