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.
There is a popular cartoon on the internet highlighting changes that have occurred in schools over...
Parenting is the toughest job in the world. We have noted previously that for all our other jobs...
"Alright, class, let’s gather round and settle down. We need to start,” the teacher announced....
Brian Clough was an extraordinary soccer manager. He took over Derby County when they were in the...
The holiday season just past perhaps offered opportunities for party games, dreaded by some,...
Outside one of our soccer stadiums there are very helpful and clear signs indicating where team...
It is interesting (or perhaps just a coincidence) that in fairy tales and nursery rhymes there...
It is one of professional sport’s most ridiculous requirements that managers and even players are...
It is interesting to compare the classic film Dead Poets Society to the film we considered in a...
The hugely-popular film Grease (astonishingly only a PG rating), starring John Travolta and...
“Many a true word is said in jest”, as the saying goes. During a fun game of ‘Trivial Pursuits’...
When it comes to sermons, there are some classic and extreme responses! In some churches, the...
Ken Robinson, a legend in the educational world, once mused in one of his brilliant TED talks...
In one Charlie Brown cartoon, Peppermint Patty wonders aloud “Do all fairy tales begin with ‘Once...
The story is told of a coach who called one of his Colts players aside during a match and asked...
There is a wonderful, and very telling, scene in the hugely popular 1993 film Cool Runnings (a...
When we choose a sports team, we select players primarily on their ability in their specific...
Charles Schulz first introduced the world to Charlie Brown in 1950 in his Peanuts cartoons. While...
