formal assessment spring 2015 giving – lent/easter

Formal Assessment Spring 2015

Giving – Lent/Easter

Assessing Serving - Pentecost

• This term, the formally assessed theme is the CHRISTIAN LIVING THEME Giving – Lent/Easter

• We will be formally assessing AT1 – LEARNING ABOUT RELIGION Strand (iii). The children may be informally assessed against the other strands.

• Each year group will assess from an activity taken from a Learning Focus in Reveal.

• The activities are listed over the next few slides.• When planning please leave this task out. • Please teach all of ‘Explore’, ‘Reveal’ (but don’t use the

task identified for the formal assessment) then, after ‘Remember’, please formally assess using the activities indicated.

• This enables the children to have had opportunity to work through the topic in full to inform their assessment.

(i) beliefs, teachings and sources

ii) celebration and ritual

iii) social and moral practices and way of life

i) engagement with own and others’ beliefs and values

ii) engagement with questions of meaning and purpose

CHURCH THEME SACRAMENTAL THEME

CHRISTIAN LIVING THEME

1 Recognise some religious stories

Recognise some religious signs and symbols and use some religious words and phrases

Recognise that people because of their religion act in a particular way

Talk about their own experiences and feelings

Say what they wonder about

2 Retell some special stories about religious events and people

Use religious words and phrases to describe some religious actions and symbols

Describe some ways in which religion is lived out by believers

Ask and respond to questions about their own and others’ experiences and feelings

Ask questions about what they and others wonder about and realise that some of these questions are difficult to answer

3 Make links between religious stories and beliefs

Use a developing religious vocabulary to give reasons for religious actions and symbols

Give reasons for certain actions by believers

Make links to show how feelings and beliefs affect their behaviour and that of others

Compare their own and other people’s ideas about questions that are difficult to answer

4 Describe and show understanding of religious sources, beliefs, ideas, feelings and experiences; making links between them

Use religious terms to show an understanding of different liturgies

Show understanding of how religious belief shapes life

Show an understanding of how own and others’ decisions are informed by beliefs and values

Engage with and respond to questions of life in the light of religious teaching

5 Identify sources of religious belief and explain how distinctive religious beliefs arise

Describe and explain the meaning and purpose of a variety of forms of worship

Identify similarities and differences between peoples’ responses to social and moral issues because of their beliefs

Explain what beliefs and values inspire and influence them and others

Demonstrate how religious beliefs and teaching give some explanation of the purpose and meaning of human life

ATTAINMENT TARGET 1 : Learning about Religion AT 2 : Learning from Religion

Early Years: Based on Focus Week 2, page 134, Activity 6. (Refer to Church’s Story 1 pages 42-43)• Scribe onto ‘cut-out eggs’ ways in which the pupils have

grown during Lent. Pupils can decorate these and hang on the Lenten tree. (Refer to Background Notes)

• The pupils with adult directed support will begin to recognise ways in which people celebrate Lent and Easter.

(Towards Level 1)• The pupils will recognise ways in which people celebrate Lent

and Easter. (Level 1)

Formal Assessment Spring 2015Giving – Lent/Easter

Year 1: Based on Learning Focus 4, page 136, Activity 6

Invite the pupils to produce a simple poster/guide, (based on LF2 and 4) which illustrates and describes some of the ways in which Christians serve and do things for other people in Lent.

• The pupils will recognise some of the ways in which Christians serve and do things for other people in Lent. (Level 1)

• The pupils will describe some of the ways in which Christians serve and do things for other people in Lent. (Level 2)

• The pupils will give further reasons for some of the ways/actions (which they have described) in which Christians serve and do things for other people in Lent. (Level 3)


Can I recognise some of the ways in which Christians serve and do things for other people in Lent. (Level 1)Can I describe some of the ways in which Christians serve and do things for other people in Lent. (Level 2)Can I give further reasons for the ways in which Christians serve and do things for other people in Lent. (Level 3)

Year 1:




• Pupils will recognise that Christians act in a particular way because of their religion. (Level 1)• Pupils will describe ways in which religion is lived out by believers. (Level 2)• Pupils will give reasons for the actions of some believers. (Level 3)

** NOTE: Level 3 is given for mixed aged classes only**

Year 2: Based on Learning Focus 2 & 4 , page 135, Activity 2.

• Pupils choose from a bank of words and actions to show that they recognise how we serve and do things for other people in Lent. (Level 1).

• Invite the pupils to produce a simple poster which illustrates and describes some of the ways in which Christians serve and do things for other people in Lent. (Level 2).

• Pupils need to give further reasons for the ways/actions they have described. (Level 3).


Pupils at Level 2 should describe how because of their religion Christians live out their lives. To achieve Level 3, the pupil needs to describe and give further reasons for how Christians live out their lives.

At Level 1 the pupils can recognise that because of their religion ‘Christians’ act in a particular way.

Can I recognise how we serve and do things for other people in Lent. (Level 1)Can I describe how Christians serve and do things for other people in Lent. (Level 2)Can I describe and give further reasons how Christians serve and do things for other people in Lent. (Level 3)

Year 2: iii) social and moral practices and way of life





** NOTE: Level 3 is given for mixed aged classes only**

Year 3: Based on Learning Focus 1, page 139 Activity 2

• Pupils recognise some ways in which religious belief is lived out during Lent. (Level 1)

• Pupils describe some ways in which religious belief is lived out during Lent. (Level 2)

• Pupils give reasons for some of the ways in which religious belief is lived out during Lent. (Level 3)


Within Learning Focus 1 and 2 the pupils learn about the ways in which we can be giving during lent. Following Learning Focus 3, invite the pupils to use Lenten signs and symbols to make a Lenten promise and design a plan about how they will achieve this.

• Pupils at Level 1 should recognise some ways in which religious belief is lived out.

• Pupils at Level 2 should describe some ways in which religious belief is lived out.

• Pupils at Level 3 should give reasons for these actions.






Can I recognise some of the ways in which religious belief is ‘lived out’ during Lent? (Level 1)Can I describe some of the ways in which religious belief is ‘lived out’ during Lent? (Level 2)Can I give reasons for the actions of Christians who live out their religious beliefs during Lent? (Level 3)

Year 3:

Year 4: Based on Learning Focus 3, page 149, Activity 2.• Invite the pupils to design an information sheet (which could take

the form of a table or series of paragraphs) which outlines what Christians can learn about self-giving from what Jesus said based on Luke 6:27-28, 32-36 and give reasons for their actions.


• Pupils recognise some of the ways in which belief in self-giving is lived out during Lent. (Level 1)

• Pupils describe some of the ways in which belief in self-giving is lived out during Lent. (Level 2)

• Pupils give reasons for the actions of Christians because of their belief in self-giving during Lent. (Level 3)

ii) celebration and ritualiii) social and moral practices and way of life


• Pupils at Level 2 will be able to describe some of the ways in which belief in self-giving is lived out during Lent.

• Pupils at Level 3 will be able to give reasons for the actions of Christians because of their belief in self-giving during Lent.

• Pupils at Level 4 will be able to show an understanding for the actions of Christians because of their belief in self-giving during Lent.

Can I describe some of the ways in which belief in self-giving is lived out during Lent. (Level 2)Can I give reasons for the actions of Christians because of their belief in self-giving during Lent. (Level 3)Can I show an understanding for the actions of Christians because of their belief in self-giving during Lent. (Level 4)

Year 4:





Year 5: Based on Learning Focus 1, page 143, Activity 1.


Using Church’s Story 3 (pages 96 and 98) and the Background notes design a guide/leaflet/information sheet entitled ‘Why Lent is important to Christians’, outlining what we do during Lent, why we do this and why it is an important time for Christians.

• Pupils recognise some of the actions of Christians because of their belief in the Easter story. (Level 1)

• Pupils describe some of the actions of Christians because of their belief in the Easter story. (Level 2)

• Pupils give reasons some of the actions of Christians because of their belief in the Easter story. (Level 3)

• Pupils show an understanding of a greater range of sources to the lives of people whose life has been shaped by their belief. (Level 4)

At Level 4, pupils will be able to show an understanding of some of the actions of Christians because of their belief in the Easter story.

At Level 3, pupils will be able to give reasons for some of the actions of Christians because of their belief in the Easter story.

At Level 2, pupils will be able to describe some of the actions of Christians because of their belief in the Easter story.

Can I describe the actions of Christians because of their belief in the Easter story? (Level 2)Can I give reasons for the actions of Christians because of their belief in the Easter story? (Level 3)Can I use show an understanding of some of the actions of Christians because of their belief in the Easter story? (Level 4)

Year 5: ii) celebration and ritualiii) social and moral practices and way of life






Year 6: Learning Focus 1, page 157/58, Activity 1.• Using Church’s Story 3 (pages 96 and 98) and the Background

notes design a guide/leaflet/information sheet entitled ‘Lent: a time to die in order to live new life’. The pupil would draw upon a range of sources including scripture, hymns, prayers, ritual and the lives of Christians whose lives are shaped by this belief.


• Pupils recognise how Christian belief shapes lives. (Level 1)• Pupils describe some of the actions of Christians because of their belief in the

Easter story. (Level 2)• Pupils give reasons some of the actions of Christians because of their belief

in the Easter story. (Level 3)• Pupils show an understanding of a greater range of sources to the lives of

people whose life has been shaped by their belief. (Level 4)

Year 6: iii) social and moral practices and way of life






Can I describe the actions of Christians and say how their belief shapes their lives? (Level 2)Can I give reasons for the actions of Christians and how their belief shapes their lives. (Level 3)Can I show an understanding of how Christian belief shapes lives? (Level 4)

At Level 2 pupils would focus on describing the actions of Christians and how their belief shapes their lives. At Level 3 pupils would focus on giving reasons for the actions of Christians and how their belief shapes their lives. At Level 4 pupils will be able to show understanding of how Christian belief shapes lives.

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