Peninsula Bridge Club provides a tailored pathway to help our new learners become confident members who love the game and the friendships it offers.
Check our pathway options below - from Beginner classes to our full range of playing sessions.
Beginner classes are offered in 6 week morning or evening courses with an experienced teacher and introduce you to how to play bridge, including the core bidding and play principles. Click here for more information.
Help with Play sessions are designed to support those players who have just completed beginners' classes and for other players who would like to consolidate what they have learned. We offer regular two hour sessions on Wednesday mornings (10am) and Monday evenings (7pm) where you can practice your skills and learn new ones. Generally, one week a month will be a formal lesson to introduce a new bidding topic. The other sessions will start with a mini-lesson on a playing topic following the Joan Butts Help with Play curriculum, followed by supervised play with a teacher on hand to help you and answer your questions.
Green sessions are designed to support players who are ready to move on. These are regular club duplicate sessions on Wednesday and Friday mornings and players make their own bidding and play decisions (no supervisor or table talk). The first competitions are available and masterpoints can also be earned. Players are however protected from more advanced players and unfamiliar bidding conventions and supported with more time to bid and play each hand. Players are limited to under 25 masterpoints.
Continued lessons - We offer regular lessons to help you advance your understanding, including adding to your bidding system the conventions used by most regular players and defence.
Our clubhouse sessions - We offer a large range of sessions to suit all players and are happy to guide you to sessions appropriate for you. Some sessions allow you to come without a partner. See our Session information guide with contacts for each session in case you are looking for more information.
