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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. Balloons!
    02:59
    Balloons!
  9. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  10. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
  11. Writing Fiction
    01:29
    Writing Fiction
  12. What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
    03:02
    What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
  13. Favourite book
    00:45
    Favourite book
  14. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  15. Weather and climate
    00:56
    Weather and climate
  16. Questions from schools
    08:14
    Questions from schools
  17. Introduction to the Twitchers
    05:50
    Introduction to the Twitchers
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