UNDERSTAND THE BIG PICTURE

There is an apocryphal story that the headline in April 1912 of ‘The Dundee Courier’, a provincial newspaper in Scotland, stated: “DUNDEE MAN DIES AT SEA”. The fact was true, a Dundee man did die at sea, but the incident to which it was alluding was the sinking of the...

THE BEST OF ONE

With the FIFA World Cup upon us, we are yet again invited to answer the age-old question: who is the best player in the world? Many of us will have an opinion;some may name a player who never even played at the World Cup Finals, a certain George Best – as they said in...

COMPETING DISORDERS

WHY ATS SCHOOLS REQUIRE ALL PUPILS TO PLAY SPORT AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO DO SPORT WELL Many of us may share Mark Twain’s view of life when he said: “The secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” A lot of us do not...

THINGS TO LOOK FOR IN CHOOSING SECONDARY SCHOOLS

It is vitally important that parents consider very carefully to which school they will send their child. However, all too often, parents do not do so. COMMON MISTAKES PARENTS MAKE They base their selection on: Their old school – but schools change, as Heads change!...

IT IS WELL!

The story of Horatio Spafford is an intriguing, inspiring and instructive one for us all as we enter 2014 in our CHISZ schools here in Zimbabwe. He was a successful lawyer and businessman with a loving family in Chicago in the late nineteenth century but in a few...