{"id":11924,"date":"2025-11-19T16:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/1oxford\/?p=11924"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:30:22","slug":"bolton-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/2grove\/blog\/2025\/11\/19\/bolton-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today, 1 Oxford visited Bolton Museum<\/strong> to explore Bolton\u2019s past. We saw art that showed what Bolton was like hundreds of years ago, and even sang a nursery rhyme that\u2019s over 100 years old!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We sorted objects into hoops, comparing things from today and things from 100 years ago. We discovered that some toys, like teddies and marbles, haven\u2019t changed much at all. Then, in teams, we went on a scavenger hunt around the museum. We found old toys, vintage swimming costumes, and even bars of soap that people used to wash with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To finish up, we got to handle and play with some real toys from the past. What was your favourite toy from the workshop?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Today, 1 Oxford visited Bolton Museum to explore Bolton\u2019s past. We saw art that showed what Bolton was like hundreds of years ago, and even sang a nursery rhyme that\u2019s over 100 years old! We sorted objects into hoops, comparing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latestblogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/2grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/2grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/2grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/2grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/2grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/2grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11955,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/2grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11924\/revisions\/11955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/2grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/2grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oxford-grove.bolton.sch.uk\/2grove\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}