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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
    05:40
    Questions from schools
  9. Respecting each other
    01:57
    Respecting each other
  10. D is for Dialogue
    03:04
    D is for Dialogue
  11. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  12. The main characters
    03:46
    The main characters
  13. School days
    03:57
    School days
  14. Creating a magical place
    06:49
    Creating a magical place
  15. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  16. Reluctant reader to avid writer
    08:03
    Reluctant reader to avid writer
  17. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
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