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.
Winston Churchill may well be remembered as an extraordinarily brilliant even if abrupt...
Have we ever wondered why on earth a seven year-old child does not stop to think that it is...
There is a gloriously ironic YouTube clip of two West Indian cricketers having a personal duel in...
A young boy is slogging his way round the track during the Inter-House athletics, trying to lift...
It is interesting that in the word ‘perseverance’ are the words ‘severe’ and ‘race’. As...
Increasingly we read in newspapers of international sportsmen and women announcing their ...
True story! Two boys were great friends at the same Primary School; both showed great potential...
The sporting world was very different forty years ago; in those days, many international...
It is an interesting exercise to see how point-scoring in rugby has changed over the years. In the...
Someone once said that at “40C degrees, Californians shiver uncontrollably but people in...
At the inaugural celebration of the Laureus World Sports Awards in 1999, Nelson Mandela...
“There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night, Ten to make and the match to win, A bumping...
At an Inter-Schools athletics event, the Heads of some of the schools were sitting in the shelter...
There is an old adage that says that “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well.” There is...
When the New Curriculum was being introduced, a gathering of Heads had been assembled to...
My father was an exceptional golfer. For many years he played off scratch (meaning his...
In an article in March 2011, the journalist Mike Norrish wryly noted that “Cricket seems to have...
Freddie Mercury and Winston Churchill were very different people! Freddie Mercury was a...
