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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. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  9. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  10. Meeting the Wolf Queen
    02:20
    Meeting the Wolf Queen
  11. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  12. Introduction to the Twitchers
    05:50
    Introduction to the Twitchers
  13. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  14. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  15. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  16. No Breathing in Class
    04:08
    No Breathing in Class
  17. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
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