Blog
Our Executive Director, Tim Middleton has been writing articles on Education and School Sport each week in the Standard since 2015. These 4-minute reads cover timely topics that may be of interest to the ATS Community and the Education body as a whole.
So, tell us: did we choose our parents wisely? Let us consider it another way: have we ever wished...
The Leaning Tower of Pisa, or simply the Tower of Pisa, is the campanile, or 850-year-old...
Excuse notes from parents often make for wonderful reading, even if not intended. One parent...
Our former President, Robert Mugabe, is quoted widely as saying that, “Cricket civilizes people...
It is Speech Day season at Secondary school level so there will be much excitement, anticipation,...
The Haka has become a familiar sight in recent times, with the increase in the number of All...
The words of the Teacher (or Preacher, or Philosopher), found in the book of Ecclesiastes 3,...
On the menu today we have the Chef’s Special of Pan-Seared Sea Scallops and Jumbo Prawns, served...
The doctor looked at the young man and said, “You need to get in shape, young man”, to which the...
What do we hate? [Note, we ask ‘what’, not ‘who’!] For some of us it may be traffic jams, the...
How superstitious are we? We will be aware of the most common examples of superstition, such as a...
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, in a US Open second-round qualifier in 1983,...
One of the joys of teaching is seeing interesting spellings of words like “tree cuter” and “making...
People approach old age in different ways. Oliver Wendell Holmes argued that “Old age is always...
‘Two and a Half Men’ was a hugely popular sitcom that ran for twelve seasons in the early 2000s...
For those of a certain age who follow golf, the names Tom Watson and Turnberry Golf Course will be...
Eric ‘The Eel’ Moussambani, the Equatoguinean swimmer at the 2000 Sydney Olympics who...
There is a popular Scottish cartoon strip entitled ‘Oor Wullie’ which celebrates its ninetieth...
