The Middelbare Technische School is a former MTS
middelbare school on the Verspronckweg,
Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
, Netherlands. It is one of the oldest public
vocational schools in Haarlem, built as a boys school in 1919, which grew out of the first Ambachtsschool that was located on the Kamperstraat.
[''Deugd boven geweld, Een geschiedenis van Haarlem, 1245-1995'', edited by Gineke van der Ree-Scholtens, 1995, , p555] It currently houses one of the locations of the Sterren College.
History
This school that had such a difficult time during World War II because
National Socialists ran it. After the war, it became the "Hoger Technische School" (HTS), and the young students were taught how to fix trams, trains, and airplanes.
On the Indonesian island
Flores
Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. Including the Komodo Islands off its west coast (but excluding the Solor Archipelago to the east of Flores), the land area is 15,530.58 km2, and th ...
, many technical achievements were realized after being drawn and fabricated in this school.
In 2010 the school and its history were one of the subjects at the
Historisch Museum Haarlem
Museum Haarlem is a city museum on Groot Heiligland 47, Haarlem, Netherlands, located across the street from the Frans Hals Museum. It shares its front door with the ABC Architectuurcentrum Haarlem, which is located next door. The museum is devot ...
's exhibition "Leren voor het Leven" (learning for life), a compilation of materials from various
vocational schools in the Haarlem area.
Sterren College
The Sterren College school offers
vmbo Pre-vocational secondary education (, abbr. VMBO) is a school track in the Netherlands. It lasts four years, from the age of twelve to sixteen. It combines vocational training with theoretical education in languages, mathematics, history, arts
...
schooling today at a new location on the Badminton pad in Haarlem.
References
External links
Website of the Sterren College Haarlem
Educational institutions established in 1919
Schools in Haarlem
1919 establishments in the Netherlands
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