by admin | Sep 4, 2023 | Education Articles
IN 1968 the American jazz rock music band Blood, Sweat and Tears had a hit song called ‘Spinning Wheel’ which began with the lines “What goes up must come down; spinning wheel got to go ’round. Talkin’ ’bout your troubles; It’s a cryin’...
by admin | May 8, 2023 | ATS, BLOG, News
Neil Todd, the first CEO of ATS and former Head of Falcon College, passed away recently. The following is a tribute to him from ATS. There was an old joke that said, “Old teachers never die; they only lose their class.” In the case of Neil Todd, that is half...
by admin | Jul 21, 2021 | BLOG, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NEWSLETTER
Many years ago we were taught a subject called Mechanical Drawing. It later became Technical Drawing, then Technical Graphics and latterly Design and Technology, and with each name change the emphasis of the subject no doubt changed a little. The same was perhaps true...
by admin | Jul 21, 2021 | Parents Articles
Everyone knows of Robin Hood but for different reasons perhaps. He was in truth a ‘baddie’ but he is generally portrayed as a good guy. He was an outlaw, a thief, a rebel (against what he saw as forces of tyranny, in the form and office of the Sheriff of Nottingham)....
by admin | Feb 9, 2021 | BLOG, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR NEWSLETTER
Thomas Hardy is most well-known for his tragic novels but his great love was in fact poetry. One of his most moving poems was called ‘The Voice’, published in 1914, which began with the lines: “Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me, / Saying that now you...
