Level Ladder for RE
Some suggestions for assessment
using the eight level scale
To move up to level 1
children must be able to:
• Learning about religion
• Use remembering skills to
recall part of a story
• Use some correct names
for things that are special
to religious people
• Pick out religious symbols
or words in a picture or
story
• Learning from religion
• Talk about themselves and
things that have happened
to them
• Talk about things they find
puzzling
• talk about what is
important them
• Use the word ‘because’
correctly to give a single
clause reason
KEY SKILLS: Recall, name, communicate
To move up to level 2
children must be able to:
• Learning about religion
• Sequence the main events
in a story correctly
• Talk about things that
some religious people have
in common e.g. praying
• Talk about what some
religious symbols stand for
( e.g. the cross reminds
Christians of Jesus’ death)
• Learning from religion
• Ask about what the
feelings of others
• Talk about the questions a
story might make them ask
• Talk about what is
important to them and
others
• Give a reason in the form
of a consequence about
themselves or a simple
appeal to authority
KEY SKILLS: retell, asking questions, simple reason
To move up to level 3
children must be able to:
• Learning about religion
• Describe what a believer
might learn from a story
• Describe some things that
are the same and different
for religious people
• Use religious words in
their own independent
work
• Learning from religion
• Identify similarities and
differences about things
that influence them
• Ask questions and explore
different answers to them
• describe the difference
beliefs can make to the
way some people behave
• Give a reason based on
consequences that affect
them or others
KEY SKILLS: describe, compare,
reasoning based on consequences
To move up to level 4
children must be able to:
• Learning about religion
• Describe the impact of
religion on the lives of
believers
• Use religious key words
and quotes correctly in
detailed pieces of writing
and/or in oral
presentations
• Use a range of different
ways to present the
beliefs and ideas of
religious people e.g. words,
art, drama
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Learning from religion
Give reasons why some people
inspire or influence them
Use more than one reason to
support their view and begin
to make use of principles to
support their view
Ask questions about the
meaning and purpose of life
and suggest answers that
show they have taken into
account the views of religious
believers
Ask questions about moral
decision and suggest
consequences for different
types of action
KEY SKILLS: describe, using evidence, suggesting a
range of answers, giving several reasons
To move up to level 5
children must be able to:
• Learning about religion
• Explain how religious
sources and evidence are
used by religious believers
to provide answers to
questions about life or an
issue being studies
• Explain the impact of
religion on the lives of
believers
• Explain why some people
have the same or different
beliefs
• Use a range of religious
vocabulary from different
religions independently and
correctly
• Learning from religion
• Give reasons for more than
one point of view
• Provide several pieces of
evidence to support a view
• Explain some of the
challenges a believer may
have when following their
religion
KEY SKILLS: explaining, reasoning for two sides of an
argument,
references
• I can statements ( betterre website)
• Presentation by Dilwyn Hunt to RE
Advisers November 2010
• Assessed RE ( Lat Blaylock)