The thinking skills associated with argument, reasoning and logical analysis have a key place in RE. To learn RE effectively, pupils need to develop a range of thinking skills that enable them to gather, organise, store, retrieve, modify and present information. These skills include:

decision-making skills
the ability to decide what information is needed for an RE task and what sources are appropriate

research and classifying skills
the ability to use a variety of sources, search for information, organise and present it, understand connections and implications, and identify relationships and meaning

questioning skills
the ability to ask sensible and pertinent questions that probe information and lead to meaningful answers

analytical skills
the ability to make inferences from information in a reasoned way

explanatory skills
the ability to apply existing knowledge, draw conclusions about what has been discovered, and put forward reasoned arguments to help explain findings.

Managing provision in the general guidance

Matching teaching to pupils' needs in the general guidance

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