淡水女學堂
Girls’ School in Tamsui

淡水女學堂1884年落成招生,開學時有30多名女學生入學,大部分是宜蘭地區的平埔族婦女。校長是馬偕,馬偕夫人張聰明和幾位傳道士師母任舍監和教師,開授讀書、寫字、算術、歌唱、地理、婦女技能、聖經歷史和聖經教義等課。1901年,淡水女學堂因馬偕逝世一度停辦,1905年復校。1907年馬偕的兒子偕叡廉返臺創辦中學,將淡水女學堂改為「淡水女學校」。 戰後1945年改名為「淡水女子中學校」。1947年與淡水中學合併,成為「淡江中學」女子部。1949年女子部改名為「純德女子中學」。1956年兩校再度合併為「私立淡江高級中學」。現今則是淡江中學附設純德小學的校舍。

 

Tamsui Girls’ School was established and began to enroll students in 1884. More than 30 girls were enrolled when the semester began, and most of them were female plains aborigines from the Yilan area. MacKay was the principal and his wife, Zhang Tsong Ming, and several other missionaries’ wives were the teachers and dorm directors. They taught reading, writing, math, singing, geography, household skills, biblical history and bible studies. The Girls’ School was suspended temporarily when Mackay passed away in 1901, and then it restarted in 1905. In 1907, MacKay’s son Dr. George William MacKay founded Tamkang Girl’s School. After World War II in 1945, the name was changed to “Tamsui Girls’ High School” and then merged with Tamkang Middle School become the Girls Department in Tamkang High School. The Girls Department changed its name to Chongde Girls’ High School. But in 1956, the two schools merged again and were named Tamkang Senior High School. The building is currently used by Chongde Elementary School affiliated with Tamkang Senior High School.

 


淡水女學堂現況(胡家瑜拍攝,2015)