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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.
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...
X marks the spot for hidden treasure! X is the unknown factor in a mathematical equation! In ...
George Best was one of the world’s most exciting soccer players in the 1970s. One opponent,...
The nineteenth century wit Oscar Wilde once made an interesting statement: “You can never be...
Have you ever noticed what is missing after a team has won a match? We will notice the wild...
Hansie Cronje was the successful captain of the South African national cricket team in the 1990s...
Few would disagree that one of the most annoying experiences we ever face is having a...
The 2009 film, “The Blind Side”, in which Sandra Bullock won one of her Oscar Academy...
Who scored the best goal ever? That will be debated often and there will be many contenders...
It may be because we live in an ‘instant’ society, whereby we want everything now, if not...
Eddie Jones, the coach of England’s rugby side, cited England’s lack of leaders as one of the...
In March 2017, the French rugby referee Roman Poite had a wonderful exchange with the England...
Many school sports coaches have clearly been brought up watching soccer matches on...
