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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. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
  10. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  11. The Crackledawn Dragon
    02:10
    The Crackledawn Dragon
  12. Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
    09:49
    Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
  13. Characters and Themes
    04:51
    Characters and Themes
  14. We are all storytellers
    05:27
    We are all storytellers
  15. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  16. Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
    03:40
    Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
  17. How to draw emotions
    04:34
    How to draw emotions
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