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Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
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James tells us why he thinks there’s such enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic in schools.
  1. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  2. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  3. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  5. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  6. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  7. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  8. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  9. Bumble and Snug reading
    04:07
    Bumble and Snug reading
  10. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  11. The importance of libraries
    08:10
    The importance of libraries
  12. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  13. Elle and the characters of The Infinite
    04:35
    Elle and the characters of The Infinite
  14. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  15. Reading of The River
    04:08
    Reading of The River
  16. Fan fiction of your life!
    01:05
    Fan fiction of your life!
  17. Feather reading
    06:20
    Feather reading
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