Individual Dutch Schools: Koudum Village School


Figure 1.--Here we have a school portrait taken in in Koudum. It apparently was a larger school as the group here all looks to be the younger children. Koudum is a small North Sea coastal village. Many of the boys wear sailor suits. Two seem to have some kind of smock outfit. The girls wear dresses, several with sailor styling. Several girls also wear pinafores. Note that both of the teachers are men. All the children look to be wearing wooden shoes. Put your cursor on the image to see the rest of the class. 

Here we have a school portrait taken in in Koudum. It apparently was a larger school as the group here all looks to be the younger children. Koudum is a small North Sea coastal village. There aew about 2,700 inhabitants in 2007. This was apparently the Christelijke (Christian?) School. I'm not sure what that meant. Surely the village was too small to have a private religious school. All the children are wearing wooden shoes which would suggest that they were the village childen and not a group whose parents could afford a private school. A Dutch reader tells us that this would not have been a private school, but rather a Christian school financed by the Government. He tells us, "In rural areas we had the School met den Bijbel, a Calvinist school with daily prayers, Bible readings and psalm singing." Many of the boys wear sailor suits. Two seem to have some kind of smock outfit. The girls wear dresses, several with sailor styling. Several girls also wear pinafores. Note that both of the teachers are men.






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