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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.
For many people, life, and indeed sport, is a paradox. By that we mean that life (or maybe more...
Who would want to be a sports coach at a school? The answer might well be that a lot of people do....
In a recent interview before a league match that preceded a European Final in which his club was...
THERE are various theories as to when the first Beauty Contest was held, ranging from anywhere in...
A great deal of attention has been placed on a young soccer player overseas in recent weeks as he...
If we were presented with a white sheet of paper that had a small black dot on it and we were...
Some readers may have had the experience of doing something and being told, “You’re for the high...
There is that dreaded moment in a cricket match when the fielder realises that the ball has been...
Jack Nicholson, as mentioned in a previous article, was the winner of three Oscars, the first of...
In the 1986 film Clockwise, John Cleese played the part of a fastidious Headmaster who is obsessed...
Everyone loves a superhero — especially children! First (though we may not have known him so well)...
Thirty to forty years ago, when a child misbehaved seriously at school, the Head would be involved...
We have all seen it. We have all witnessed, either in person or on screen, coaches and managers...
In 1997 Jack Nicholson was awarded his third Oscar (his second as best Actor) for his part in the...
First there was King Kong, terrorising the world. Then there was Planet of the Apes, in which man...
There is a well-known saying that “Football is a gentleman’s game played by hooligans but rugby is...
Many of us will be familiar with the story of a man who was walking along the road and came upon...
We all want to win, do we not? It is the one thing that every player goes onto the field to...



















