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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.
“Practice makes perfect”, is the old saying but in truth it is not practice but principle that...
At the end of a match a coach was overheard crying out to his team in frustration, anger and...
There is always a huge amount of debate about which soccer team is the best in the English...
“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my axe” Abraham...
We live in a world where everyone is in a hurry. We want it all and we want it now; we want...
Some pupils, and even parents, come out with the line that they are very sorry but their child...
In 1998 Mark Taylor was the captain and opening batsman of the Australian cricket team...
For those of us who have been brought up kicking or hitting a ball from a very young age,...
If in doubt, quote Einstein! Would that not be a safe assumption, seeing that he is seen to be one...
WE all love pantomimes! Oh no, we don’t! Oh yes, we do! Yes, pantomimes certainly bring out the...
"There are only three things wrong with the English team - they can't bat, they can't bowl, and...
It is a good and noble desire and ambition for any young person to represent her country....
There is no doubting that the world has changed; education has changed; parents have changed;...
It is a strange phenomenon: while schools are increasingly looking to broaden and extend the...
Steven Spielberg has a world-wide reputation as being one of the greatest film directors of...
Forty years ago, the term ‘Amateur’ was a compliment (playing sport for the love of it) and the...
IN addition to sounding heretical, unpatriotic and unsporting by claiming that Zimbabwe does not...
It may sound heretical, unpatriotic and unsporting to say this but say it we must – Zimbabwe...




















