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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. Books and confidence
    01:08
    Books and confidence
  9. Hallowe'en in Scotland
    06:14
    Hallowe'en in Scotland
  10. Questions from schools
    05:40
    Questions from schools
  11. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  12. Phil’s characters
    05:36
    Phil’s characters
  13. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
  14. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  15. Noi and his family
    03:19
    Noi and his family
  16. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  17. School days and writing
    07:07
    School days and writing
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