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School days
Abi talks about what she was like at school and her writing.
  1. School days
    03:57
    School days
  2. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  3. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  5. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  6. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  7. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  8. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  9. Children’s Laureate
    03:24
    Children’s Laureate
  10. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  11. Phil’s characters
    05:36
    Phil’s characters
  12. Questions from the audience
    09:53
    Questions from the audience
  13. Questions from schools
    07:16
    Questions from schools
  14. Questions from schools
    04:02
    Questions from schools
  15. Read a long
    04:36
    Read a long
  16. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  17. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
  18. Newton Farm Questions
    05:46
    Newton Farm Questions
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