The Scots Language Centre, in partnership with West O-S, have developed a series of videos and activities to support the learning and teaching of the Scots Language Award.

The videos focus on the two compulsory units within the award:

• Scots Language: History and Development; and
• Scots Language: Understanding and Communicating

Each video is accompanied by classroom activities that learners can undertake with the support of their teacher. The activities encourage learners to engage with resources such as:

• The Origins of Scots video (in English and in Scots);
• The History of Scots video and learning resources;
• The Scotticisms resource from the National Library of Scotland’s ‘The Scottish Enlightenment’ site;
• ASL’s Place-Names of Scotland resource;
• The Twa Chrisses by Morna Young (narrated story with transcript);
• Education Scotland's 100 Key Words in Scots resource and
• The Scots language Dictionary for schools app on (Apple) and (Android)

You can access the SQA Unit Specifications for the award, available at SCQF levels 4 – 6, here.

Downloadable activities for each video are available within the ‘Teachers’ Notes’ section for each video.

Learner and class assessment records are downloadable below, along with a 'Useful Links' document. The full video playlist, featuring the 8 videos for the course as well as other organisations' videos which complement the teaching of the course, is available on YouTube.