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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. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  9. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  10. Daisy on the Outer Line
    02:34
    Daisy on the Outer Line
  11. Rachel’s books and inspirations
    06:29
    Rachel’s books and inspirations
  12. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  13. A question about Charlie and Lola
    01:44
    A question about Charlie and Lola
  14. Draw Goldy the Gecko
    04:43
    Draw Goldy the Gecko
  15. Sputnik
    00:55
    Sputnik
  16. The life of Matthew Henson
    08:12
    The life of Matthew Henson
  17. Questions from schools
    06:06
    Questions from schools
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