Reading bus/train timetables to find departure and arrival times, calculate journey durations, and plan journeys.
Where your child meets this in real life: Planning bus journeys to school, train trips to Central or Harbour, or looking up cinema times
SEAGReady breaks read and use timetables into 3 steps, taught in order so each skill builds on the last.
Locate departure and arrival times in a timetable using row and column references
Extract departure and arrival times for a journey and calculate how long it takes
Choose appropriate services to meet time constraints and recognise when services don't stop at certain stations
Three free sample questions from our read and use timetables course. Every question comes with a full explanation, and hints that guide without giving the answer away.
Thomas is looking at the bus timetable. What time does the 09:15 bus from Central arrive in Riverside?
Charlotte takes the bus from Riverside to Central. The bus leaves Riverside at 09:45 and arrives in Central at 11:20. How long is the journey?
Thomas needs to arrive in Central by 14:00 for a football match. What is the latest bus he can catch from Westfield?
This is the exact interactive worked example your child sees in SEAGReady. Step through it and watch the method build up.
Emma is looking at the bus timetable to visit her granny in Riverside.
What time does the 10:15 bus from Central arrive in Riverside?
Look at the departure column (Central)
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Emma is looking at the bus timetable to visit her granny in Riverside.
What time does the 10:15 bus from Central arrive in Riverside?
The 10:15 bus from Central arrives in Riverside at 12:30.
The key insight: Timetables work like coordinates: find the row first, then read across!
Common mix-up: Reading 10:45 from the Park column. That's the wrong column. Always check you're reading from the destination column.
These are the misconceptions we see most often in read and use timetables, including the ones our practice questions are specifically designed to catch.
Struggling with read and use timetables? The real gap is often in one of these earlier topics.
SEAGReady finds the exact step where your child gets stuck, teaches it with worked examples like the one above, and brings it back for review so it sticks.
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