{"id":8471,"date":"2025-10-24T14:58:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/reception-1\/?p=8471"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:04:13","slug":"diwali-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/1grove\/blog\/2025\/10\/24\/diwali-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"Diwali Maths!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week has been the Hindu celebration of Diwali! Reception have done lots of fun maths activities based around this week&#8217;s class story of Rama and Sita &#8211; including using monkeys to count &#8216;one more&#8217; and &#8216;one less&#8217; and making new bracelets for Sita too!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Super week of maths, Reception!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/reception-1\/files\/2025\/10\/IMG_0425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-id=\"8503\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/reception-1\/files\/2025\/10\/IMG_0425-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/1grove\/files\/2025\/10\/IMG_0425-1024x768.jpg 1024w, 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Reception have done lots of fun maths activities based around this week&#8217;s class story of Rama and Sita &#8211; including using monkeys to count &#8216;one more&#8217; and &#8216;one less&#8217; and making &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/1grove\/blog\/2025\/10\/24\/diwali-maths\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/1grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/1grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/1grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/1grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/1grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/1grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8516,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/1grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471\/revisions\/8516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/1grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/1grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/1grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}