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Black History Month online

Black History Month online

Black History Month online – Reflections on 2020by Suzy Rowland, Oct 2020 Growing up in a mainly white area of Birmingham in the 1970s, a child of 2nd generation immigrants with my kinky curly hair, brown skin, gap-tooth smile, and skinny legs, I couldn’t hide my...

How To Make The Transition Back To School As Easy As Possible

How To Make The Transition Back To School As Easy As Possible

My Baba:  How To Make The Transition Back To School As Easy As PossibleYou know the feeling when you come off a roller-coaster and your body thinks you’re still moving? Coming out of lockdown and getting the kids back to school will feel like that. For some of us,...

The School Run, “SEN learning survival guide”

The School Run, “SEN learning survival guide”

The School Run, “SEN learning survival guide” Editorial by Suzy June 2020. If your child has special educational needs, supporting their physical and emotional wellbeing and academic progress at home during the lockdown and school closures offers its own unique set of...

Back to school for kids with SEND

Back to school for kids with SEND

Posability:  Back to school for kids with SEND Suzy Rowland, founder of the #happyinschool project, and author of SEND In The Clowns (due for release on 1 Sept 2020), explores the challenges and emotions facing children with SEND as they prepare to go back to school....

Family Friendly Working – Is Back to School Brilliant for all?

Family Friendly Working – Is Back to School Brilliant for all?

Family Friendly Working – Is Back to School Brilliant for all?Just when you think you couldn’t manage another day of home-learning with your school-aged children, the Government has given the green light for the schools to re-open. You love your children but allow...

Is Neurodiversity the New Black?

Is Neurodiversity the New Black?

Precious Online:  “Is Neurodiversity the New Black?” – Editorial by Suzy, June 2020. On the theme of individuality, what does it mean to be black? The answer depends on where you’re at in your life, your upbringing and experiences. We share a commonality as black...

Things to do when your special needs kids are stuck indoors

Things to do when your special needs kids are stuck indoors

Kiddy Charts :  Guest post May 2020 “Things to do when your special needs kids are stuck indoors”  Special educational needs is a broad term used to describe any disability that creates a barrier to a child’s learning; this can range from physical impairments such as...

Tips For Families of Children with Special Educational Needs

Tips For Families of Children with Special Educational Needs

Tips For Families of Children with Special Educational Needs My Baba March 2020 It’s been a dramatic start to the decade. Perhaps this will be the decade of change and evolution we all need. Change starts with us as individuals and families. News of Covid-19 has swept...

You’re Jamaican, you love Bob Marley, right?

You’re Jamaican, you love Bob Marley, right?

I grew up listening to Bob Marley’s music. In fact, I used to get a bit annoyed when people would expect me to like Bob Marley, because I’m black. In those far away days, Duran Duran and Teardrop Explodes were the tunes I was ‘jammin’ to!  However, Bob’s music was...

Do you have a disabled child, should your employer care?

Do you have a disabled child, should your employer care?

Diversity Q: ‘Do you have a disabled child, should your employer care?’ Editorial by Suzy Employers and employees have much clearer guidance on their respective responsibilities thanks to legislation and workplace regulations that are regularly reviewed. The Equality...

TW Talent online, Take Five with Suzy

TW Talent online, Take Five with Suzy

TW Talent online, Take Five with Suzy Interview, March 2019. Introducing our new addition to TW Talent; Take Five. Over the last few months, I have been collecting the ideas behind the brilliant businesses that make the TW postcode such as wonderful place to live....

Book featured in My Ebony Box

Book featured in My Ebony Box

Signing books at launch, OSO Arts, Barnes.

Signing books at launch, OSO Arts, Barnes.

Signing books at launch, OSO Arts, Barnes.

Songs of My Soul on sale at Black Cultural Archives April 2018.

Performing poems from Songs of My Soul and the Windrush poem, at Hampton Hill Theatre, June 2018, as part of Poetry Performance.

Guests at Songs of My Soul book launch, including Anne Warrington of Poetry Performance

Guests at Songs of My Soul book launch, including Anne Warrington of Poetry Performance

Songs of My Soul launch - interview with Suzy Rowland

Songs of My Soul launch - interview with Suzy Rowland

Black Cultural Archives support Suzy, a former Black Youth Penmanship Winner, stocking her book in their eclectic bookshop

Songs of My Soul on sale at Black Cultural Archives April 2018.

Performing poems from Songs of My Soul and the Windrush poem, at Hampton Hill Theatre, June 2018, as part of Poetry Performance.

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Signing copies of Songs of My Soul at Return to Your Roots, May 2018.

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Windrush poem on sale at Black Cultural Archives

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Suzy Rowland on Stage in Noel Coward Suite, debuts her SS Empire Windrush poem.

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Suzy after Hampton Hill Noel Coward Suite performance, 2018

Please stay with me on this poetic journey of life; singing ‘Songs’ as we go!

© Suzy Rowland