Group Norms, Created by the 5th Grade Religion Classes at All
Saints'
We will…
Have fun
Be friends to each other
Get to know each other well
Trust each other and be trustworthy
Be thoughtful and considerate of what others are doing
Watch each other fail and succeed without judging each other
Include everyone
Respect everyone
Listen to each other
Watch for when someone isn’t fine
Be there for each other if something bad happens
Be careful with other people and their things
Believe in each other
Be nice to each other
Be fully ourselves so others can be fully themselves
Have a sense of humor
Have each other’s backs
Make good choices
Always keep our promises
Do all of the safety procedures
Let each person show their weird side
Let people go unnoticed when they want to
Listen to everyone in the group
Let everyone participate
Make our teams fair
Reach out to others as much as they reach out to us
Accept new things about each other
Be comfortable disagreeing
Talk to each other if we are not happy about something
Confront each other if someone is being mean to someone
Remember that two wrongs don’t make a right
Work stuff out
Let everyone say everything they want to say before using their thoughts as a source of ideas
Say what we want to say, and not just go along with someone else if we have our own idea
Leave the past in the past
Respect each other’s personal space
We will NOT…
Be all the same and exclude those who are different
Bully anyone
Threaten anyone
Scapegoat anyone
Be passive-aggressive
Gossip about each other
Call each other names
Ignore each other
Purposely try to annoy each other
Interrupt each other
Whisper behind each other’s backs
Make fun of each other
Be weirded out when someone is themselves
Tell someone they are going to fail before they try
Tell everyone someone else’s secrets
Tattle
Lie
Get in fights that hurt our friendships
Make fun of each other’s religions
Do things to people outside the group that we wouldn’t do to someone in the group
Be hypocrites
Try to be in control of everything
Have rigid expectations of each other
Form cliques
Force someone to go along with an idea
Go along with something we know isn’t right
The leader promises…
To try to make sure everyone is safe in the group
To regulate the group so everyone is included
To try to make sure there is no fighting and drama
To make sure everyone has a job and not just the leader
To be prepared
To remember that no one is perfect
To be positive
To be there for the people in the group
To listen to the group
To remember that someone in the group is probably smarter than she is
To do what’s best for the group and not just herself
Not to just assume everyone will follow her
Not to take over
Not to try to be in control of everything
Not to play one person against another
Not to pick favorites