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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. My Heart
    01:52
    My Heart
  9. Gill reads from Willow Wildthing and the Dragon's Egg
    05:44
    Gill reads from Willow Wildthing and the Dragon's Egg
  10. There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 1
    04:07
    There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 1
  11. Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
    04:07
    Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
  12. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
  13. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  14. Themes of books
    03:14
    Themes of books
  15. Questions from schools
    06:15
    Questions from schools
  16. Why comics matter
    06:03
    Why comics matter
  17. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
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