Your connection to driving success
Manual and automatic driving lessons in Taunton, Bridgwater, Wellington and Tiverton. We’re a small local school run by David Sheppard, a DVSA-approved instructor. £45 an hour, with no extra for evenings or weekends.
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Simple prices
What you see is what you pay, any day of the week.
One lesson
£45 an hour
Pay as you go.
Block of 10 hours
£420
Paid in advance. That’s £42 an hour.
Save £30Please give 24 hours’ notice to cancel or move a lesson, otherwise the full lesson fee is charged. Any money left over from a block is refunded. More about prices
Lessons for wherever you’re starting from
Manual
Learn clutch control and gears. Pass in a manual and your licence covers automatics too.
Automatic
No clutch or gear changes to think about. An automatic licence covers automatic cars only.
Learner lessons
Regular lessons from your first time behind the wheel through to test day.
Motorway
Get used to joining, lane discipline and higher speeds with an instructor beside you.
Refresher
Passed a while ago, or lost some confidence? Get back up to speed at your own pace.
Who you’ll be learning with
Connect Driving is a small local driving school, run from Taunton by David Sheppard. David is a fully qualified, DVSA-approved driving instructor (ADI) who has been teaching people to drive for years.
More instructors are joining the team, and we’ll introduce them here as they start.
Before your first lesson
Three things worth knowing, whoever you learn with.
A provisional licence
You need one before you can drive on the road. You can apply on GOV.UK from 15 years and 9 months old, and start driving a car at 17.
Your eyesight
You must be able to read a car number plate from 20 metres, with glasses or contact lenses if you wear them.
The green badge
A fully qualified instructor shows a green badge in the windscreen. A trainee shows a pink one. Ask to see it on any lesson, with any school.
Official links: apply for a provisional licence, book a theory test, book a driving test and The Highway Code.
Ready when you are
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