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.
WHAT has the novelist Jane Austen to do with sport? Not a lot, would be our natural initial...
THERE is a remarkable lady living in our midst who despite being blind from birth leads an...
WE have referred in previous articles to the film ‘Cool Runnings’ which told the story of the...
It does not appear to matter what sport is played, from rugby to soccer to golf; selection of...
There was a famous sketch from a comedy show many years ago in, which a renowned music conductor...
THE moment has arrived, the moment everyone has been waiting for. The stage is set; everything is...
A young man schooled here in Zimbabwe went overseas and took a temporary job as a waiter in a...
WATCHING sport is incredibly costly. Figures found on the internet suggest that someone in the UK...
IN 1968 the American jazz rock music band Blood, Sweat and Tears had a hit song called ‘Spinning...
Many years ago we were taught a subject called Mechanical Drawing. It later became Technical...
Everyone knows of Robin Hood but for different reasons perhaps. He was in truth a ‘baddie’ but he...
Thomas Hardy is most well-known for his tragic novels but his great love was in fact poetry. One...
A popular comic duo of another era had a famous sketch where they enticed a world-famous conductor...
These have been interesting and demanding times for us all in education, as well as for those in...
In 1967 the soul singer Aretha Franklin had a massive hit with her song entitled ‘Respect’. It...
We are all in this together! How often have we heard such a sentiment or statement in recent...



















