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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. The life of Matthew Henson
    08:12
    The life of Matthew Henson
  9. The Selkie and Finfolkaheem
    03:48
    The Selkie and Finfolkaheem
  10. How to Draw Eric Dynamite
    08:33
    How to Draw Eric Dynamite
  11. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  12. Working with young writers
    01:12
    Working with young writers
  13. Stories and puzzles
    01:34
    Stories and puzzles
  14. Ideas and inspirational teachers
    05:32
    Ideas and inspirational teachers
  15. Respecting each other
    01:57
    Respecting each other
  16. Illustrating the Book
    02:15
    Illustrating the Book
  17. Crackledawn
    02:08
    Crackledawn
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