Cynefin - Maps to home
By
Naomi Heath
2025
Maps to Home with St Mary's. At St Mary’s, the ethos was that every child is already a leader of their own learning. Children’s ideas guided the flow of activity, play became inquiry, making became meaning, and adults facilitated by noticing, reflecting, and opening space rather than directing. Leadership in learning was distributed across the room, across relationships, and across moments of attention and action. They told their own story of Newtown and shaped it’s future. Leading to co designing maps and writing letters to get support for our school. We got funding offers and charities to help support us. From small acts of co-creation civic change can come.