Please get in touch with Tim Hewson, ABC Teaching Coordinator, on avenuelessons@gmail.com to register interest for courses or for details of course content and delivery.

• Autumn Classes start week commencing 16th September.  
• Contact details and instructions for booking and payment for courses are included below the details of courses, near the end of this page. 
• Please use the correct code when paying online.

Wednesday evening play sessions continue every week.  Still just £5 per session to the public and £3.50 to members. 

Book for a term in advance at £120. Ten lessons per term. 

FOR NEW BEGINNERS

REF R    Beginners  - £120 for the term. 

Tuesday 17th Sept, evenings 7 – 9pm with Nick and Dudley

No previous bridge experience required. 

Indicative content: getting started with 'mini-bridge'; how to evaluate a hand; the 3 roles - defender, declarer and dummy; the essence of bidding at 1-level, balanced and unbalanced hands. 

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REF Z    Beginners  - £120 for the term. 

Lunchtime 12 - 2 Thursday from 19th September 2024 with Ollie Powell

No previous bridge experience required. 

Indicative content: getting started with 'mini-bridge'; how to evaluate a hand; the 3 roles - defender, declarer and dummy; the essence of bidding at 1-level, balanced and unbalanced hands. 

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CONTINUING CLASSES

REF L   All Welcome Supervised Play - £5 per session (club members £3:50)

Every Wednesday evening 7:00 - 9:00pm 

These sessions are supported by more experienced players and/or teachers, who can be called on during play for help with bidding or card play questions.  The format is relaxed, with no competitive scoring. Results can be compared with other tables and with club duplicate sessions.

They are a “stepping stone” to moving on to club membership, and participation in DupliCake (Wednesday afternoons) or full Duplicate games.  

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REF Q      Year 2 - 10 classes  £120 

Monday evening 7 - 9 pm from 16^th September with Ollie Powell

Indicative content: developing the auction, defensive guidelines; competitive bidding; declarer play.

REF S      Beginners Term 2 - 10 classes  £120 

Wednesday evening 7 - 9pm from 18^th September with Andy Osborn

New joiners/re-starters with some basic experience welcome – please email to discuss.

Indicative content: Bidding stronger hands, improving results in declarer play and defence, introducing competitive bidding.

YEAR 2 AND BEYOND

   REF A       Continuing Bridge (Year 2) Term 2   - 10 classes  £120 

    Tuesday mornings 10:30am-12:30pm from 17^th September with Ollie Powell

    New joiners with previous learning or experience welcome, please email. Indicative content (depending upon the term): competitive bidding; declarer play; defenders play; slam bidding

   REF C      Continuing Bridge (Year 2) Term 2/3  - 10 classes  £120 

    Tuesday evenings  7.00 - 9.00pm from 17^th September with Ollie Powell

     New joiners with previous learning or experience welcome, please email. Indicative content: declarer play, defender play, more conventions in bidding, slam bidding and play

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REF F       Improvers Year 3+    - 10 classes  £120  

Thursday mornings  10am – 12pm from 19^th September with  Oliver Powell

Those new to the club who are considering this course please email Tim Hewson the teaching coordinator at avenueLessons@gmail.com the content is more tailored to the groups level. Those who join this course would have prior experience of bidding ACOL 4-card / 5-card  Majors weak / strong NT. Experience of when to bid game / part game alone and in competition. Experience of the play of suitable leads and signaling and use of discards. How and when to bid pre-emptively with weak 2s and weak 3s. The 2C and 2NT and responses. Conventions such as: 4th suit forcing, Landy (or alternative), Unassuming Queue Bid, Stayman and red suit transfers (possibly transfer into minors), simple Blackwood. 

Existing students should book a class by contacting the tutor and confirm by email to avenuelessons@gmail.com.

New students should contact avenuelessons@gmail.com

PAYMENT

All fees are payable in advance (but see Beginners below) and should be paid direct to the Club account at Barclays Bank by BACS. 

The Avenue Bridge Club

Sort Code: 20 88 13   Account: 93986020  

Payment reference is CLASS/Ref letter/name e.g. CLASS/G/JBloggs

Beginners who wish to do the free Taster session before committing, will pay for the whole term promptly after the first session, if they wish to continue.  Beginners who wish to secure their place on the course and to to commit to the term in full, should make their payments as above.

CONTACT

Any queries should be addressed to either the tutor of your chosen class or our Teaching Coordinator, avenuelessons@gmail.com