SCOTTISH BRIDGE UNION
The Scottish Bridge Union depends on the excellent work of a small but growing army of tutors. More tutors are required both for adults, primary and secondary pupils. You don't have to be a good bridge player, the most important quality is patience.
If you are interested in teaching bridge, please contact the
The SBU has two approved bridge courses leading to the SBU Standard Bidding System. They are a full 60 lesson course and a shorter 20 lesson version both available below.
The SBU 20 Lesson ACOL Course has also been adapted to SAYC by the Bridge Club of New South Wales and this is also available.
There are also a guides to "Teaching Bridge in a Weekend" developed by Ned Paul and running a "Taster Session" written with help from Andrew Robson.
These bitesize Norwegian videos translated into English are aimed at children but may well be worth using.
There is a new initiative teaching Minibridge to the elderly. Please see here for more details.
We are building up a set of resources for "Lessons for Improvers". Please see below.
The SBU Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy has recently been reviewed and can be found under 'About the SBU' in the Policies section.
Resources for teachers of the SBU 20 lesson course.
The material presented below is designed for use by SBU Bridge Tutors as the core of their teaching to bridge learners in Scotland and has been approved by the Scottish Bridge Union
You can download the full course as a compressed (ZIP) file by clicking here: - SBU 20 Lesson Bridge Course for Beginners - 29 Aug 2022.zip
See further the resources in the menu on the left of this page. There is additional information that we hold in our Education Dropbox that should be of interest - for access please contact Gill Roberts.
Resources for teachers of the SBU 60 lesson course
Here is the course material for the 60 lesson approved Bridge course provided by Scottish Bridge Union. The content is designed for use by SBU Bridge Tutors as the core of their teaching to bridge learners in Scotland.
Tutors may wish to download and adapt the material for their own lesson provision. If taken and altered in any way please attach the following statement: 'Based on the original SBU 60 lesson course material'
Download the full course as a compressed (ZIP) file by clicking here: - SBU 60 Lessons (PDF) 29 Aug 2022.zip - or in a compressed (ZIP) Microsoft Word format from here: - SBU 60 Lessons (Word) 29 Aug 2022.zip
Resources for Improver Lessons
Please find below links to the powerpoint presentations, provided by Alisdair, given at the recent Youth Camp.
Defending Fundamentals: Signals
Declaring Fundamentals: Communication
Declaring Fundamentals: Trump Play
Shape is Everything
Education Dropbox
There is an SBU Education Dropbox which contains resources for bridge Education. To apply for access please contact the
Schools Bridge
The preferred method of teaching bridge in schools is through the Minibridge Course.
Here's the SBU Minibridge course in Zip format: Mini bridge course.zip
It's a 312MB download.