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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. Respecting each other
    01:57
    Respecting each other
  9. The story rollercoaster
    00:58
    The story rollercoaster
  10. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  11. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  12. Remembering Kobe Bryant
    01:41
    Remembering Kobe Bryant
  13. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  14. Questions from schools
    04:02
    Questions from schools
  15. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  16. Desert island books
    02:27
    Desert island books
  17. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
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