Sugar-coated learning

Pupils from All Saints Primary School in Greenock have been working away on their project to find out all about the sugar industry which once played such a major part in the life of their home town.

Absent Voices' artists Rod Miller and Annie McKay, are very enthused about their teaching visits to the school and the kids have been learning all about the weird and wonderful world of sugar, which includes dark tales as well as the sweet stuff.

They're making 'sugarloaves' and decorating them, which has captured everyone's imagination.

Anne and Rod are looking forward to their first drawing and walking tour of the Sugar Sheds tomorrow. Guess what we'll be Blipping tomorrow?

Before bags of sugar became the norm, a sugarloaf was the traditional form in which refined sugar was produced and sold. They would have been familiar to children until the late 19th century, when granulated and cube sugars were introduced.