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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.
In recent weeks, we have heard national anthems blaring out at numerous televised sporting events,...
We will all have come across numerous ‘Knock Knock’ jokes, most of which would safely be filed...
Certainly, there is one thing that we all have in common and which we all celebrate even though we...
Have we ever attended a function when a Special Guest, a famous person perhaps, a talented athlete...
Have you ever noticed how often people say in conversation, “To be honest with you”? Now, that is...
Depending on our gender (and the extent of our sense of humour), we may have smiled at, maybe even...
We will all have come across those cringe-worthy Christmas cracker type jokes, beginning with...
One thing that is not taught at school, especially to boys, and which perhaps would be most...
In some parts of the world, the common conversation starter is the weather. Reference will be made...
Confession time: how many readers have been beaten in their life? How many were beaten when they...
The soccer World Cup is upon us, big time! And the big question is this, obviously: who will win...
In 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded a song that soon became an anthem for the anti-war...
A memorable child’s story (certainly to one Scots granny we can find on YouTube) is ‘Wonky Donkey’...
There is an old joke: “As we get older, three things happen. First, our memory goes. Second, … I...
Various sources claim that people typically use about five thousand different words in their...
Picture the scene: a bus (no, not a commuter bus, nor one of our crab-like sideways-moving...
AFAIK, ATM, FWIW, IMHO, IYKWIM, it is NAGI, FYI, to do this F2F. But, BTW, TIL, with TIME, you can...
Many years ago, British Gas had a series of advertisements promoting their product in which they...
