These are the essential skills and processes in RE that pupils need to learn to make progress.

2.1 Learning about religion

Pupils should be able to:

• Investigate the impact of religious beliefs and teachings on individuals, communities and societies, the reasons for commitment and the causes of diversity
  • Investigate could mean looking at the reasons for prayer and collecting and sorting information on worship.
  • Commitment includes reasons why people might belong to a faith community or subscribe to beliefs or values
• Apply a wide range of religious and philosophical vocabulary consistently and accurately, recognising both the power and limitations of language in expressing religious ideas and beliefs
• Explain religious beliefs, practices and commitments, including their transmission by people, texts and traditions
• Evaluate how religious beliefs and teachings inform answers to ultimate questions and ethical issues
  • Evaluate the range of religious and moral responses to the question of whether a person should fight in a war
• Interpret a range of sources, texts, authorities, and forms of religious and spiritual expression from a variety of contexts
  • Interpret religious texts or doctrines in different ways or explore how, and why, these were written
• Analyse religious beliefs, arguments and ideas.
  • Analyse competing truth claims, the validity of evidence and the ways in which these are transmitted.

2.2 Learning from religion

Pupils should be able to:

• Reflect on the relationship between beliefs, teachings, world issues and ultimate questions
  • World Issues might be peace and conflict, poverty, wealth, war, environment etc...
  • Ultimate questions are those linked to matters of life and death and community or world changing events
• Evaluate beliefs, commitments and the impact of religion in the contemporary world
  • Evaluate might include why they and others belong to faith communities, what this would mean for the individual in terms of challenge and commitment and how the faith communities effect world issues
• Express insights into the significance and value of religion and other world views for human relationships personally, locally and globally
  • Express could be how you, and how you perceive others, responding to moral and ethical issues, how you share and question assumptions (e.g. about good and evil) and how we develop responses to problems including community cohesion and inter-faith solutions.
• Express their own beliefs and ideas, using a variety of forms of expression, including creative forms and reasoned arguments.