Mavo
MAVO consists of four years. We think it is important to monitor your development – together with you. This way we determine what guidance you need from school to obtain your diploma. We pay a lot of attention to study skills and help you organize your school work. You plan with a planning agenda from school. If we see that you can handle a higher level, we will offer you the option to progress to HAVO. You use a Chromebook for school work. You can rent or buy these through school.
Profile choice
At the end of the second year you choose a profile that matches your preference: a continuation of secondary vocational education (MBO) or HAVO.
Of course we want to help you make the right choice. That is why you already receive career guidance from your mentor in lower secondary school. You can choose from these profiles:
- Economy
- Care and welfare
- Technology
- Agriculture
You will start working on your profile from the third grade onwards. We call this year the 'preliminary year'. In addition to your profile subjects, you take the compulsory subjects Dutch, English, social studies, physical education and art in the third and fourth year. In the third year you can also choose a practical subject: services & products or economics & entrepreneurship.
Final year
In the fourth grade, you work on your profile paper in addition to six final exam subjects. You will present this paper after completion. We work together with ROC Mondriaan to make the transition to secondary vocational education as smooth as possible for you. If you want to progress to HAVO after your final exams, you will take an extra subject in your final year.
mavo+
The Johan de Witt Scholengroep wants you to get the most out of your secondary school years and then choose the right study programme. To further increase your future chances, we offer many additional programs and projects through the Talent House. Technology and technology play a major role in our lives, from heating to cooking and from your telephone to travel. That's why you start working with robotics in seventh grade. During these lessons, students learn the basic skills of computational thinking. At Digigames, students learn how to make a digital game from designing to creating a playable game. In the second year, students go into more depth with more challenging assignments.
The Johan de Witt School Group has different types of classes:
Regular classes
Are you a real MAVO student or a real VMBO basic student? Have you received one piece of advice and does it suit you completely? Then you can join us in the class at your level. You will then be in a class with other students of the same level.
Sometimes it is not yet entirely clear which course suits you best. The Johan de Witt Scholengroep wants to give these students more time to discover this. This is possible in the opportunity class or the heterogeneous first year. In these classes you get the opportunity to develop further or catch up on learning delays. You can then move on to the most suitable course. We follow the advice of the primary school.
Probability classes
Have you received duplicate advice? Then you are best suited in an opportunity class. You will receive education at the higher level, but a report card will be issued for both courses. At the end of the first year, we determine which level suits best based on the results and development of the student. We offer the following opportunity classes:
- HAVO VWO
- Mavo HAVO
- VMBO/MAVO framework
- Basic pre-vocational secondary education/pre-vocational secondary education framework
- VMBO-p/pre-vocational secondary education (VMBO) basis
Heterogeneous classes
Are you still developing and do you need more time? Then the heterogeneous first year might be something for you. In the heterogeneous class there are three education levels together. You follow your own program. In three years you will find out at which level you can take the exam. We offer the following heterogeneous classes:
- MAVO/HAVO/VWO
- VMBO/MAVO/HAVO framework
- VMBO basic/VMBO framework/MAVO
- VMBO-P/VMBO basic/VMBO framework
Pre-vocational secondary education (VMBO) basis
Do you learn best by doing things right away? And do you prefer to work practically? Then the VMBO basic vocational learning path (BBL) at the Johan de Witt School Group suits you best. This pre-vocational secondary education course lasts four years. In the first year you will learn most of your subjects from your group teacher. He/she follows your development closely and helps you plan and organize your homework or studying for tests.
Choose profile
In the upper years you choose which direction you want to continue after your final exams: which further education suits you? This follow-up direction includes a profile. You can choose from seven different profiles:
- Building, living and interior
- Production, installation and energy
- Mobility and transportation
- Media, design and ICT
- Care and welfare
- Economy and entrepreneurship
- Services and products
You take courses that match your specific profile. They prepare you in a practical way for your further education and later profession. You follow these subjects in special practice rooms. In addition, everyone in the upper grades receives the same subjects: Dutch, English, social studies, physical education and an art subject.
Moving up to a pre-vocational secondary education framework
The Johan de Witt School Group believes it is important that you can be yourself and feel at home in the course. If we notice that you are doing well and getting good grades, you can move up to a higher level with us. This means that you can start the basic pre-vocational secondary education course in the first year, but ultimately obtain your diploma at the pre-vocational secondary education level.
MBO training
With your basic pre-vocational secondary education diploma, you can start an MBO level 2 course. You choose an MBO course in which you learn a profession, so that you are then well prepared for work.
Extra support
You may need some extra help to perform well at school. We are happy to help you with this in the form of learning support education (LWOO). If you are entitled to this, you will receive tutoring or homework help, for example. There are fewer students in an LWOO class, so you get more attention.
VMBO basic +
The Johan de Witt Scholengroep wants you to get the most out of your secondary school years and then choose the right study programme. To further increase your future chances, we offer many additional programs and projects. In the upper years of pre-vocational secondary education we organize projects that allow you to orient yourself well on your profile, studies and work. These projects match your profile or transcend your profile.
Substructure
Getting started with robotics and digital games in the first grade through the Talent House. In robotics you learn to program a robot so that it turns in a circle, for example. In the second grade you will work on this further and even create your own game.
Superstructure
Collaboration with ROC Mondriaan
To promote progression to secondary vocational education, we work together with the ROC Mondriaan. We organize basic/framework activities with the Mondriaan and 4th classes On Wednesday afternoons, students work on a project that matches their profile. The program has been put together by teachers from the Johan de Witt School Group and the Mondriaan. At Mondriaan Tinwerf, the 3rd classes make a drone flight through the urban mind.
Vocational subjects
We regularly organize projects within the vocational subjects. For example, we participate in SKILLS Talents every year. This is a practical school exam with collaborative assignments and skills within the chosen profile. The students compete against each other and in groups of 2 show the jury what they have learned. After the school final there will be a provincial and national final.
Better education and career choice
During the internship, students are introduced to a company on the work floor or the company comes to school. This gives them a better idea of which sectors and professions exist. In addition, students receive a career coach with whom they can find out one-on-one which further education suits them.
The Johan de Witt School Group has 3 types of classes
Regular classes
Are you that real pre-vocational secondary education student? Have you received one piece of advice and does it suit you completely? Then you can join us in the class at your level. You will then be in a class with other students of the same level.
Sometimes it is not yet entirely clear which course suits you best. The Johan de Witt school group wants to give these students more time to discover this. This is possible in the opportunity class or the heterogeneous first year. In these classes you get the opportunity to develop further or catch up on learning delays. You can then move on to the most suitable course. We follow the advice of the primary school.
Probability classes
Have you received duplicate advice? Then you are best suited in an opportunity class. You will receive education at the higher level, but a report card will be issued for both courses. At the end of the first year, we determine which level suits best based on the results and development of the student. We offer the following opportunity classes:
- HAVO VWO
- Mavo HAVO
- VMBO/MAVO framework
- Basic pre-vocational secondary education/pre-vocational secondary education framework
- VMBO-p/pre-vocational secondary education (VMBO) basis
Heterogeneous classes
Are you still developing and do you need more time? Then the heterogeneous first year might be something for you. In the heterogeneous class there are three education levels together. In three years you will find out at which level you can take the exam. We offer the following heterogeneous classes:
- MAVO/HAVO/VWO
- VMBO/MAVO/HAVO framework
- VMBO basic/VMBO framework/MAVO
- Practical education/pre-vocational secondary education/pre-vocational secondary education framework
Entrance
From the ISK trajectory and practical education it is possible to progress to the entrance training within the Johan de Witt School Group. The entrance training is a collaboration with ROC Mondriaan and we offer it at the Capadosestraat and Hooftskade locations. With an entrance course you will obtain an MBO level 1 diploma within one year.
Direction
Within entrance you choose a direction that suits your interests and talents.
- Motor vehicle technology
- catering industry
- Services and care
- Sales and retail
- Building, living and maintenance
- Metal, electrical and installation
The training consists of two parts: theory and internship. In the theory part you work on Dutch and arithmetic. You also fill your exam portfolio with assignments for the citizenship course.
Internship
You spend a large part of your entrance training doing an internship. Together we will ensure that you end up in the right place and discuss in advance what you want to learn. After completing your internship, we want to see that you have the necessary employee competencies. This means that you have to prove that you are a good employee and, for example, that you can work well together.
And after that?
With this training we prepare you for the labor market. For example, you can become a care assistant or an installation technology assistant. If you choose to follow a course at MBO level 2 after obtaining your diploma, you will already have a good foundation.
ISK
The International Link Class (ISK) of the Johan de Witt School Group is especially for students who have not been in the Netherlands for very long and who do not or hardly speak the language. We offer this education at the locations Glasblazerslaan, Vermeerstraat and the Helena van Doeverenplantsoen.
The students not only learn the Dutch language, but are also introduced to Dutch society and are prepared for regular education. This 'first care for foreign speakers' is aimed at a very diverse group of students, both in terms of background, previous education and learning ability.
Appropriate learning path
The Johan de Witt Scholengroep ensures a careful intake and places the students (temporarily) in the learning paths VWO/HAVO, MAVO, VMBO framework, VMBO basic, alpha or entrance. They will work on an intensive Dutch teaching program, including citizenship and art education. These subjects are supplemented with arithmetic/maths, physical education and English. Relatively little knowledge of the Dutch language is required for these subjects.
Study guide and progress discussions
The students work with study guides aimed at their follow-up path (pre-university education/havo, mavo/pre-vocational secondary education framework and pre-vocational secondary education basic) and receive three progress interviews. Here we discuss the expected level at the end of their ISK trajectory.
Flow
After a maximum of one year it is time for advancement. We examine in advance whether we can convert the provisional advice into a follow-up program (VO-ISK) within one of our regular secondary school courses. This is possible if the students have achieved a sufficient language and arithmetic level.
VO-ISK
VO-ISK is available at the levels HAVO/VWO, MAVO, VMBO framework, VMBO basic and VMBO practical education. We work with small groups within this process, so that students receive optimal guidance during the lesson.
