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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. The World of the Wolf Queen
    04:14
    The World of the Wolf Queen
  9. How to draw a blobfish
    03:35
    How to draw a blobfish
  10. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
  11. Poet recommendations
    02:45
    Poet recommendations
  12. A reading from Elizabeth
    02:18
    A reading from Elizabeth
  13. Studio questions
    03:22
    Studio questions
  14. Questions from schools
    06:40
    Questions from schools
  15. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
  16. Orion Lost reading
    02:48
    Orion Lost reading
  17. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
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