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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. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  9. Drawing Bugbops
    10:18
    Drawing Bugbops
  10. Studio questions
    02:06
    Studio questions
  11. Creating a Poem
    08:58
    Creating a Poem
  12. Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
    04:07
    Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
  13. Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
    05:25
    Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
  14. Noi and his family
    03:19
    Noi and his family
  15. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  16. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  17. Pets
    00:55
    Pets
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