Gloucestershire Youth Bridge - a GCBA venture incorporating a vibrant and various youth programme
at local schools, regional weekend camps and online
 After consulting with our students, we have arranged to run a Saturday Bridge Club so they can continue practising and learning Bridge
The timings: are 14.00 - 16.00, 11th and 25th October, 29th November, 6th and 13th December
Location: Cleeve School, Sports Centre, Two Hedges Road
We are really impressed by the amazing start children have made with learning Bridge. Our hope is that we can get a group of students to represent Gloucestershire at the next National Schools’ Competition which is held in March.
We welcome all children ages nine to eighteen on any of the above dates. If you have any questions, please contact me. Jan Bailey
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Not only Bridge at the Autumn Camp
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YOUTH BRIDGE in GLOUCESTERSHIRE - the latest news
Good News - Gloucestershire has been one of the top counties this year in recruiting new schools into the youth bridge programme, with some of our students successful at the National Schools’ Competition held in Loughborough in March, and at the Junior Camp held in Kidderminster in April.
Clubs are curently running at Pittville School, Cleeve School, The Cotswold School and Sir Thomas Rich’s and there is further interest from Primary schools, particularly at Foxmoor Primary in Stroud, and new clubs are starting in September at St. Mary’s in Churchdown and St. Gregory’s in Cheltenham.
We are finding that Primary School after-school clubs can need more volunteers than are sometimes available, so greater attention is now being given to Senior Schools. This year we started a 6th form (curriculum-time) club and an after-school club at Sir Thomas Rich’s in Gloucester and plan the same for Crypt School in coming months. In September there will also be clubs starting at Cleeve and Balcarras 6th forms in Cheltenham.
We want this initiative to spread across the county. A difficulty we have is getting into schools. If you have a contact with a 6th Form College, or a Secondary School that has a 6th Form, please let us know. Richard Croot, CEO of EBED will help the school or college set up a 6th Form club. His email is below.
Contact Information: Richard - richard.croot@ebedcio.org.uk Jan - jan.bailey@gcba.org.uk
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The Wessex Junior Bridge Spring Camp
On the 5th/6th April over 50 young people attended the camp, 10 of whom came from Gloucestershire. Great fun was had by all, with lots of really good bridge teaching and lots of indoor and outdoor activities for everyone to enjoy.
Congratulations to Oliver, Patrick, Maegan and Daniel for achieving their Bronze awards.
The final event was the Swiss pairs competition on Sunday afternoon, where they, along with Archer, Matilda, George and Barnaby, played against adults and members of the England U21 squad.
A special mention for George, who with his partner came 13th and to Maegan and Daniel who came 15th out of 32 pairs. There were 7 adult pairs above them whose scores didn’t count, effectively giving George 6th place and Maegan and Daniel 8th place. Maegan and Daniel were top of the Bronze group and were each awarded an Easter Egg see the photo to the right.
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Why Do We Play Bridge?
Bridge is a Card Game that is Fun & Makes you Think
All you need is 4 people and a pack of cards to play anywhere in the world
It makes your brain work and every few minutes you have a new challenge
You can play for 5 minutes or 5 hours. Every hand is an adventure
You can sit around any table – on a train – on the floor – in the playground – at home
Or you can get really good and enter competitions all over the UK and the world!
You can play on the internet – maybe with someone in Brazil or Australia?
It is as fun and as fascinating as any computer game (and we still beat the computers)
Bridge is sociable - it is an easy way to meet people wherever you go
It does not cost much – very important if you are at school or university
There is always someone to help you get started or to get better - just ask us!
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| What is Youth ? |
As far as we are concerned - anyone of school age counts. Which does means quite an age range and potentially quite a range of experience. The youngest we see regularly at youth events are about 8 years old but there is occasionally one who is younger.
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