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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. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  9. Questions from schools
    08:43
    Questions from schools
  10. Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
    06:44
    Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
  11. Reading of The River
    04:08
    Reading of The River
  12. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  13. A reading from Elizabeth
    02:18
    A reading from Elizabeth
  14. Re-imagining Scottish folklore
    01:48
    Re-imagining Scottish folklore
  15. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  16. Draw Noi and his dad
    10:03
    Draw Noi and his dad
  17. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
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