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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. Questions from the audience
    05:40
    Questions from the audience
  9. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  10. The life of Matthew Henson
    08:12
    The life of Matthew Henson
  11. Stories and puzzles
    01:34
    Stories and puzzles
  12. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  13. Studio questions
    02:06
    Studio questions
  14. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  15. Phil’s characters
    05:36
    Phil’s characters
  16. Twitch reading
    05:36
    Twitch reading
  17. Wordplay
    14:05
    Wordplay
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