Mons Aurea, or ROC Nova College is a middelbare school and former "huishoud school" on the Garenkokerskade,

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, The Netherlands. It also offers various facilities for adult education.Website
Nova College

History

When the law for

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(leerplicht) was passed in 1900 for children aged 6–12, the first local school for girls called Eerste Haarlemsche Huishoud- en Industrieschool was opened in 1901, just around the corner from the Ambachtsschool for boys on the Kamperstraat.''Deugd boven geweld, Een geschiedenis van Haarlem, 1245-1995'', edited by Gineke van der Ree-Scholtens, 1995, , p555 The "Huishoud school" offered a three-year education and "extra classes". Some of the "extra class" names in the Household school were ‘nat en droogwaschen’ (wet and dry-cleaning), ‘strijken’ (ironing), ‘tafeldienen’ (waiting tables), ‘naaien van lijfgoed’ (sewing underwear) and ‘koken' (cooking) for workmen's wives. The extra classes were paid separately. For example the cooking class for children cost 1 guilder and fifty cents, but the meal could be eaten afterwards. The school was very popular, and a Catholic girls school was opened nearby on the Kleine Houtweg in 1914 called the R.K. Meisjes School. A catholic "huishoud school" was started in the same building in 1919, but moved to the Gedempte Voldersgracht where it stayed until 1960, when the current site at the Garenkokerskade was built. It was built in 1960 by architect Jan van der Laan (1896–1966) and partners Th. M. van der Eerden, J. B. Hermans en J. H. M. Kirch.Archive Jan van der Laan
at the

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File:Haarlem Mons Aurea - luchtbrug over Garenkokerskade.jpg, Bridge from gym to classrooms over the Garenkokerskade File:Haarlem Mons Aurea - Vogels - Garenkokerskade.jpg, Front of building facing east File:Haarlem Mons Aurea - zuidkant Garenkokerskade.jpg, View from main entrance In 2010 the school and its history was one of the subjects at the

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's exhibition "Leren voor het Leven" (learning for life), a compilation of materials from various vocational schools in the Haarlem area.

References

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