Elizabeth Draper @draperel

@draperel

30+ yrs English teacher,post-16-SFC & FE. #JoyFE 💛📖📚📙✍️🗣️🎧Campaigner for bringing creative & critical thinking back into ❤️of education.Deputy Chair, trustee, Fellow of @englishassociation.bsky.social The English Association #EnglishTeaching / North West

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Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· 11d

View from the High Peak Trail.

Photo of a view across a drystone wall across fields and trees rising in the distance and a cloud strewn blue sky

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· 17d

In the Cairngorms by Kathleen Jamie The heartbreaking Sunday Poem printed in today’s Observer newspaper. #Poetry ❤️ ..’the mountain thyme is in flames, / and our bonny purple heather.’

Photo of the poem printed in today’s Observer by Kathleen Jamie : In the Cairngorms

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· 27d

Glorious! What about this for a hollyhock 😎

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· 28d

Hollyhock

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Jul 6

Delighted to be representing @englishassociation.bsky.social at @poetrybyheart.bsky.social ❤️ at #TheGlobeTheatre #GrandFinale 🎉😎 👏🏼👏🏼

Pic of Globe theatre stage with student performing her chosen poem at the Grand Finale

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Jun 29

Celebrating passion flowers coming to the fore in #Manchester … Great speech today @andyburnham.bsky.social 👏🏼

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Jun 19

🥳Invaluable human #communitymaking 💫This past week I’ve seen dynamic changemaking forward-thinking challenging creatively- critical bunch of people exchanging ideas /expertise exploring LOTS! incl. *how to steward our discipline into the future* Thx to @englishassociation.bsky.social ❤️ #Conference 🎉

Picture with title : climate education and English studies

Picture of leaves with haikus about climate education inscribed on them

Picture of children holding posters they have made expressing their feelings in response to climate change issues

Title slide : How can English support a holistic exploration of climate education and sustainability ?

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Jun 19

Books are…

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Jun 13

Very happy on this sunny Saturday to be arriving at @englishassociation.bsky.social annual conference ! Great programme ahead 🙌🏼❤️

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Jun 9

A burst of proper hail storming in Manchester just now!!!! 😮 Pic doesn’t fully do this justice. Quite dramatic along with thunder on and off …. #Weather #June #Manchester #Summer??

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· May 4

This novel by John Boyne is unforgettable, it lives with you as you read . Brilliantly crafted, immersive storytelling. A true tour de force. Profoundly moving in all its parts - epic.

Photo of the cover of this novel by John Boyne : The heart’s invisible furies

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Mar 19

Camellias.

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Mar 12

Crocuses.

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Mar 12

Trees.

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Mar 1

I joined 1000s in an amazing people powered campaign for inspirational #HannahSpencerMP 💫💚💫 @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social @greenparty.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social #MakingHopeNormal 💚 joyful community driven hard work, come rain or shine. Magnificent people of #Gorton&Denton have spoken! 💚💚

Picture of poster in Manchester window : real hope,real change, vote Green

Poster from campaign : emblazoned in yellow : vote Hannah vote Green with green background

Picture of Manchester window with poster saying : everyone welcome in our community.

Picture of Manchester window with crafted display saying: Vote Green with gold moons hanging beneath.

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Feb 25

Out again today on @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk #HannahSpencer💚💚 campaign - in the hope to bring different voices to parliament - she is a superstar of energy & compassionate, community listening, social concerns & keen awareness of ‘local’ national & global issues #VoteGreen 💚💚💚💚

Photo of Hannah Spencer Green candidate at Gorton and Denton bi-election.

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Feb 24

Well into the evening ! @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social volunteers working away… Feel the love ! And determination…and #Hope ❤️ and please get folk to vote @greenparty.org.uk #HannahSpencer 💚 #Gorton&Denton

Photo outside Green Party Manchester HQ tonight

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Feb 23

Out canvassing in #Gorton&Denton for @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk #HannahSpencer 💚 undecideds now shifting to positive choice #Green 💚 🙌People from Italy! Shetland! Cardiff, Hull, Exeter, Bristol, London, Rotherham - all over UK! pitching up to support. #VoteGreen #Hope #Sense

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Feb 18

Glad to be out canvassing for #HannahSpencer 💚 today, standing as local & for local & national issues. #Hope #NHS in safer hands; tax assets of the v wealthy - put cash back into #Community #Infrastrucuture #BelongingTogether @mcrgreenparty.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Feb 15

Another great read this Sunday afternoon. ‘The quiet catastrophe in your pocket’- leading us to ‘systematic loss of responsibility, reflection & intuition.’ Writes Pep Torres in weekend @financialtimes.com An excellent provocation re how our humanity is being dismantled… (can read from the pic ⬇️)

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Feb 15

Sometimes you come across a convincing editorial that highlights critical issues very well: on failed political/ economic models + alternative possibles AND what it wd mean to lose #BBCWorldService ( 43 languages, reaches 313m people a week) @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @theguardian.com Have a read ⬇️

Photo of The Guardian’s editorial from Saturday edition.

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Jan 25

#Burns night. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥃🥃❤️ Epitaph. Here lies Robert Fergusson, Poet

Photo of the Burns poem Epitaph : here lies Robert Ferguson Poet

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Dec 22

Wishing everyone peace and love during this festive season 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️❤️❤️❤️❤️💫

Picture of a statuette of Shakespeare all tinselled up !

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Dec 20

Never can these words tire from being read. #Poetry #EmilyDickinson ❤️💫

Photo of Emily Dickinson’s poem Hope is the thing with Feathers.

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Oct 1

RIP Brian Patten #Poet❤️ Thankful for the wonderful poems he created. I treasured my Penguin Modern Poets series. Series no 10, a v special collection from a much loved trio of poets. #Poetry ❤️

A pic of the book cover of series no 10 Penguin Modern Poets series

A pic of Brian Patten’s poem : A Talk with a Wood

A photo of his biog info from the 1960s collection

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Sep 22

Leiden. On the wall. To commemorate 400 years of Arabic Studies. #Poetry ❤️

Photo of a poem written on a white wall in the street, in Arabic and underneath in English. Written by Adonis , poet, 1930 - entitled ‘Loss’.

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Sep 19

Stunning salt marshes. In the Netherlands.

Photo of salt marsh landscape, blue skies and green stretches of marshland.

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Aug 31

Someone shared this poem with me today, and in the thing is .. #PoetrySpeaks

Picture of the text of a poem called ‘The Thing Is’ by Ellen Bass

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Aug 23

Please read response below to GCSE resit 2025 situation. Not only but also curriculum approach. The resit world is rich with consequences of society’s shortcomings, society should respect this, policy makers should take note, funding priorities & infrastructure should definitely reflect this.

Screen shot of post available on my Linked In page.

Elizabeth Draper @draperel@draperel· Aug 3

East Lothian. Much beauty to be found in this land of my childhood years…