Blog
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.
The ten Most Extreme Sports are listed on one website as being Ice Climbing, Volcano...
We have always argued that sport is meant to be fun. If we are not enjoying the experience,...
We have all seen it – the super-enthusiastic young boys on the pitch playing their hearts out in...
Not being selected for the team that we have longed to play for (or indeed which we have longed...
“Jarvo 69” this week hit the headlines when he strode out onto the famous Lord’s cricket ground...
Barack Obama rose to the position of President of the United States of America on the back of...
Many readers will be aware of the famous poem by Rudyard Kipling entitled simply ‘If’ but may...
The first lady British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, once famously said that, “Being powerful...
We have previously considered how ambition can be dangerous and unhelpful to children if...
One of Shakespeare’s most quoted lines comes from his play ‘Twelfth Night’ when a lowly...
Climbing Mount Everest is seen to be the ultimate challenge, though it is certainly not one that...
In the 1970s there was a popular children’s collection of stories in book and television...
Sports teams aspiring to greatness face a difficult dilemma. In order to gain promotion from a...
Muhammad Ali was an extraordinary showman as well as an amazing boxer; the public never...
Increasingly in professional sport, we find that teams will no longer have a coach and an...
In a poll of forty-nine historians and political scientists, organised by the Chicago Tribune in...
Many schools have an eagle in their crest; many speakers will encourage children to have an...
Roy Keane, the former Manchester United captain who won the English Premier League seven times...




















