Compassion is summarized by the students as caring for others, feeling what others are feeling, and helping those who need assistance. It involves understanding how another person feels, relating to their emotions, and taking action to improve their situation or make them feel better. Compassion is described as a universal human quality of caring for and helping all people, regardless of who they are.

1. By Grade 5/6 2013
WHAT IS
COMPASSION?

2. “If someone is hurt, I’d be there to cheer them
up because I feel compassion for them” Joseph
“It’s a little act for everyone. Everyone can
participate. Compassion is world wide” Joshua

3. “Making someone feel the way they
deserve to feel. Everyone deserves to
feel happy and proud of themselves”
Alisha
“If someone was really happy, you would
feel happy for them” Callum

4. “Caring about someone” Nathan
“Feeling for someone else, being
independent and caring for others”
Madison C

5. “When you feel the same thing as
someone else, you’re feeling what
they’re feeling” Elena
“It’s like an election where other people
can make you feel the same as them”
Kynan

6. “You care about someone” Rhiana
“Caring for others in their time of need”
Tyson

7. “Reaching out and helping others when
they need it” Jennifer
“Finding someone who needs your love
and helping them” James

8. “When you see something that doesn’t
look right, or someone going through
something, you do something. You stay
with them” Katia
“Helping others. Loving, caring, service”
Jasper

9. “When someone is giving for others”
Ricky
“You feel for others in a deep way” Luca

10. “Feeling for someone other than
yourself” Dane
“It’s using many different ways to care
for other people and yourself” Harry

11. “When you feel the same feelings as
someone and you help them through it”
Gianni
“Feeling the other person’s feeling and
expressing it yourself” Paris

12. “Feeling for or with other people no
matter if they are sad or happy” Reeya
“Caring for and looking after someone”
Jackson

13. “If someone’s feeling sad, you feel it too”
Samuel
“You feel for someone else so much that
you have to help them” Lachlan

14. “Love for another person” John-Robert
“A feeling that makes your life warmer
and leaves others with a warm feeling”
Kristine

15. “You see people sad and you want to set
them free” Sally
“Feeling for someone, whether they are
happy or unhappy, you join their mood”
Gemma

16. “Helping someone who needs your help
even if you don’t like them” Panashe
“You see someone hurt or left out and
you help them” Dane

17. “You relate to them and feel it even if it’s
never happened to you” Joely
“Feeling for others how they feel and
comforting them” Emily

18. “You’re doing good for someone and for
yourself” Luana
“You see someone upset and you have
the courage to do something about it”
Madison O

19. “Standing up for another person
because you do something for them and
you feel really pleased” Lauren
“Caring for someone else and being like
Jesus” Finley

20. “You help someone move away from a
bad situation” Jordan
“Feeling for someone deeply, you do
something about it” Christian

21. “You can really see deeply inside
someone, you feel for them and want to
really do something” Angeline
“Feeling for someone and caring for
them” Matthew

22. “It’s about helping others and seeing how
they’re feeling” Chanlyn
“Feel something for other people and think
what you can do for them” Peter