Worked example · RE · Year 7
LNF: Literacy → Listening → Listening to understand
A secure Year 7 response, annotated to show which success criterion each part meets. It is also your answer key. The key idea: all three talks say we should help anyone in need, including strangers, but give different reasons: Jesus’ teaching to love your neighbour (Christian), God’s light in everyone and seva (Sikh), and empathy and reason (humanist).
| Talk 1 | Talk 2 | Talk 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belief | Christian, Jesus’ parable, Luke 10 | Sikh, Guru Gobind Singh, early 1700s | Humanist, Dr Elin Rowlands |
| Who helps whom | Samaritan helps man beaten by robbers; priest & Levite pass by | Bhai Kanhaiya gives water to wounded soldiers, both sides | Elin helps at community café, hot meal & chat |
| Key words | neighbour, mercy, enemies, “go & do the same” | seva, selfless service, light of God, no reward | empathy, reason, Golden Rule, no god |
| Why be kind | love your neighbour as yourself; neighbour = anyone in need | God in every face → everyone deserves help | imagine how others feel; everyone does better b/c people help each other |
| Detail | 2 silver coins to innkeeper | Guru gave him ointment & bandages | Golden Rule found in many religions |
Notes are key words, symbols and abbreviations, not full sentences, and they catch the reason as well as the story. Evidences criterion 1.
Talk 1: Jesus teaches that your neighbour is anyone who needs help, even an enemy, so Christians should help them. (18 words)
Talk 2: Bhai Kanhaiya helped friends and enemies because he saw God in everyone, which Sikhs call seva. (16 words)
Talk 3: Humanists are kind because of empathy and reason, not because a god tells them to be. (16 words)
Each summary keeps the main point and the reason, and stays under 20 words. Evidences criterion 2.
(a) All three agree that we should help anyone who needs it, including strangers, and not just people we like.
(b) In Talk 1, Christians are kind because Jesus taught them to love their neighbour and said “go and do the same”. In Talk 2, Sikhs are kind because the same light of God is in everyone, and serving others without reward is seva. In Talk 3, humanists are kind because they can imagine how others feel and can reason that everyone is better off when people help each other.
(c) Helping a friend is easy. Helping an enemy shows that kindness should have no limits, so the stories make the message as strong as possible.
The pupil sees that people can agree on what to do but disagree about why. Evidences criterion 3.
I mostly agree. The Good Samaritan helped a stranger, and even an enemy, so for Christians being a neighbour is not only about friends. Dr Rowlands would agree, because empathy works for anyone: I can imagine how a stranger feels. However, I think friends deserve some extra help because they rely on us every day. I found Talk 2 most convincing, because Bhai Kanhaiya kept helping even when people were angry with him, which shows real kindness. (77 words)
The view uses details from two talks and explains why one was most convincing, while giving the pupil’s own balanced opinion. Evidences criteria 3 and 4.