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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. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  9. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  10. Forrester High's 2048 Predictions
    02:35
    Forrester High's 2048 Predictions
  11. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
  12. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
  13. D is for Dialogue
    03:04
    D is for Dialogue
  14. Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
    05:25
    Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
  15. It Does Matter
    02:17
    It Does Matter
  16. Who is Josh Bell?
    01:03
    Who is Josh Bell?
  17. Themes of books
    03:14
    Themes of books
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