Compassion - Collective Worship Session!

This fun and original collective worship session aims to assist children in understanding the value of being compassionate, through:

• Understanding what compassion is, and recognising why it is important;
• Understanding what the bible teaches us about compassion, and learning about how Jesus was compassionate;
• Looking at examples of behaviour that is compassionate and not compassionate (including through role play activities and videos), and noting its effect on people in need;
• Learning strategies to demonstrate compassion in their own lives.

This worship session is tried and tested, and has always been really well received in the past. The slides are visually engaging and well-presented, and the subject matter is tailored to the interests and needs of young people. For example, there are references to scenarios and dilemmas that they themselves might find themselves in (for example how they might act towards those in need both within and out of school) in order to help them to make the right choices in their own lives.

The session also includes a fun role-play task, a beautiful, thought-provoking video about the importance of compassion, and various discussion activities regarding how to show compassion in different areas of their own lives. No further resources are required, everything that you need to present the assembly is included. This includes a child-friendly adapted bible story about Jesus demonstrating compassion towards a man with leprosy.

The slides are fairly self-explanatory, but I’ve included two pages of notes to assist the speaker. Hope that you find this useful!