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Dear Club Official You are being included in this message as a club secretary or main contact. We have sent the below email to all of EBTA Teachers, however, we would ask you to please pass this information on to anyone who may be interested e.g. bridge teachers associated with your club, or to any schools with whom the club may be working. EBED would like to encourage new students of the game to take part in an informal competition at an early stage of their learning and runs a Sim Pairs just for Minibridge students at this time every year. Results are collected together and scored across the whole field, and reported on the Sims pages of the EBU website. 12 hands have been prepared with a commentary for use by teachers with new students of any age group. The hands are organised in 3 groups of 4, with each of North, South, West and East declaring one hand in each group. There is no requirement for students or teachers to be members of the EBU or any bridge club. We would encourage any junior to participate in our Junior Award Scheme, which links to the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme as well. Heats can be arranged at any time from Oct 7th – on one date, or spread over several dates if easier to do 4 hands one day and 4 hands on another – provided that results are submitted by Dec 7th. A spreadsheet will be provided for submitting results. There is no minimum or target number of hands to be played, so please be as flexible and inclusive as possible. A minimum of 1 table is required for a heat to be organised. If necessary a teacher/mentor can fill in as necessary to avoid a sit-out or to give a single student a chance to participate. Additional information about this will be included with our event instructions. In the first place a teacher or organiser needs to contact me by email (richard@ebedcio.org.uk) to register to take part (registration should be in the name of a club, school , or other informal organisation – rather than as an individual). Registration does not impose any commitment to take part if circumstances change – I would just welcome a line to confirm that you won’t be proceeding in that case. Upon Registration, information will be sent out from Oct 3rd onwards. If you have any queries, please write to me by email: richard@ebedcio.org.uk since I'm often out of the office or working remotely. Kind Regards Richard Banbury
English Bridge Education & Development, Registered Charity No: 1153543 Registered Office: Broadfields, Bicester Road, Aylesbury, Bucks, HP19 8AZ
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