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5 Nations Education Resources
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Represntatives from Scotland England Northern Ireland, Ireland, and Wales have been colloborating to share learning resources especially for young people.

Anyone with additional material that they wish to share may send to  highland@education.sbu.org.uk This is a work in progress and material and links will be added

EBED     Deal Files

EBU Minibridge teaching Hands

Mini bridge Activities No fear Bridge

RealBridge Teaching Resources

Glasgow High School course

Bridge 

Mini bridge 

New Tricks videos and compatible resources

Module 1

The deck of cards, rankings within suits from 2 to ace and suit rankings. Dealing the cards and sorting your hand.

Module 1 video NT

Module 1 Powerpoint  HSoG

Are you an Ace player  No Fear Bridge

Module 2

Basics of trick-taking. Play in NT, set-up of declarer, dummy and two defenders.

Module 2 video NT 

High Card Points  David Bessant short video showing cards. Children shout points

No Fear Bridge interactive tutorial   (stop before choosing the target section 5)

NT Quiz Modules 1 & 2

Deal File 2 NT PBN SBU Hand Sheet 2 SBU

Module 2 Powerpoint SBU

Supplementary videos:

Aces, Kings & Queens Part One

Aces, Kings and Queens Part Two

Unscrambling Suits

Practice Level One Bridge

Module 2 deal files

Module 3

Card play in trumps - how trumping works. Very simple strategies for declarer and defenders.

Module 3 video

Module 3 Powerpoint           SBU

 Module 3 Powerpoint       HSoG

NT Quiz Module 3

Module 3 deal file SBU Mod 3 Hand Sheet SBU

Supplementary videos:

  NT The Master Trump (Declarer)

NT  The Master Trump (Defenders)

 

Hand sheets

Module 4 

Scoring (minibridge style, so no vulnerability, doubles or slam bonuses). 

Scoring PDF

NT Module 4 video

The quiz contains one question that mentions slam bonus so I will add link once that has been removed.

NT Quiz Module 4

NT Level 2 Scoring Table

No Fear Bridge interactive tutorial

Module 4 Powerpoint  SBU

Module 4 deal files

Hand sheets SBU

Module 5 

How good are your hands together? HCP and simple ideas on the importance of distribution. 

NT Module 5 video

NT Quiz Module 5

Long suits as Trumps   No Fear Bridge tutorial

Long suits in NT  No Fear Bridge Tutorial

Unblocking   No Fear Bridge tutorial

SBU Powerpoint 5

Deal files

Hand sheets

Module 6: Taking more tricks.  Broken down into:

Module 6.1: Top tricks - explaining the difference between guaranteed and potential tricks. Simple explanation of when it might be important to take your top tricks.

Module 6.1 video

NT Quiz Module 6.1

SBU Module 6.1 Powerpoint

Module 6.2: Suit potential - idea of knocking out opponents’ high cards to establish suits. Introduction to ideas of how suits are likely to break

Module 6.2 video

NT Quiz Module 6.2

SBU Module 6.2 Powerpoint

Module 6.2 Deal files

Hand sheets

Module 6.3: The finesse.  Examples of a few basic types of finesse.

NT Module 6.3 video

NT Quiz Module 6.3

SBU Module 6.3 Powerpoint 

Module 6.3 deal files

Hand sheets

Module 6.4: Using the trump suit.  Introduces the idea of the ‘long trump hand’, making extra tricks by ruffing in the short hand and why you don’t always want to draw trumps straight away.

Module 6.4 video

NT Quiz Module 6.4

SBU Module 6.4 Powerpoint

Deal files

Hand sheets

Module 6.5: Using dummy’s side suit. Establishing long suits in dummy by ruffing them good where necessary.

Module 6.5 video

NT Quiz Module 6.5

SBU Module 6.5 Powerpoint 

Deal files

Hand sheets

Module 7: Defence.  Broken down into:

Module 7.1: Opening leads.  Leading from shortage vs rump contracts and length vs NT.  Top of honour sequences.

NT Module 7.1 video

NT Quiz Module 7.1

SBU Module 7.1 Powerpoint

NT Hints and Tips

Deal files

Hand sheets

Module 7.2: Effective defence.  Trying to think from declarer’s perspective and foil their plans

NT Module 7.2 video

NT Quiz Module 7.2

SBU Module 7.2 Powerpoint

Deal files

Hand sheets

Module 7.3: Attitude signals on opening leads and discards - low=like, high = hate.

Module 7.3 video

NT Quiz Module 7.3

SBU Module 7.3 Powerpoint

Deal files

Hand sheets