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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. Respecting each other
    01:57
    Respecting each other
  9. Creating a Poem
    08:58
    Creating a Poem
  10. The right words in the right order
    02:38
    The right words in the right order
  11. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  12. The Black Flamingo
    05:09
    The Black Flamingo
  13. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  14. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  15. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  16. Reading from The Crossing
    04:47
    Reading from The Crossing
  17. Sputnik
    00:55
    Sputnik
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