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Our Executive Director, Tim Middleton has been writing articles on Education and School Sport each week in the Standard for the past 10 years. These 4-minute reads cover timely topics that may be of interest to the ATS Community and the Education body as a whole.
We might all remember that dreaded moment! There we all were, sitting in the examination...
‘Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and Smile, Smile, Smile’, written by George and...
It is an interesting and encouraging fact that on a number of reputable websites which seek...
Many people will remember the great British actor Peter Sellers for his roles in the original...
Legend has it that Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland in the 14th century, after being defeated...
Mac Davis – does that name ring a bell? For many readers it will not but he was a country and...
In a recent article on a well-known website, Wayne Rooney, England's soccer top goal-scorer,...
Richie Benaud was a remarkable cricketer but he was also a wonderful cricket commentator. As...
There cannot be many followers of sport, even non-cricketers, who have never heard of the...
In the 1970s there was a spate of popular comedy films in the ‘Carry On’ franchise; the...
There have been no winners in school sport during these last two years on account of covid as...
Cricket is a game that you can play anywhere. Now there will be some who will be desperate...
A favourite feature of school magazines is a collection of photos of the leavers, alongside...
Many readers will no doubt have made the customary New Year Resolutions (and may even have ...
Christmas, for most people is about presents; some would therefore say that it is all about giving...
There is something about wild animals that intrigues, excites, attracts us – except, that is, when...
The 1977 film entitled ‘The Gauntlet’ starring Clint Eastwood was described by the film critic...
When it comes to Latin, there are not many of us around who learned it at school! Yet we are all...




















