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Courses

We offer the following courses:

  • Mavo
  • Bilingual mavo
  • Havo
  • Bilingual havo
  • Vwo (Gymnasium/atheneum)
  • Bilingual vwo (Gymnasium/atheneum)

Mavo

Secondary general secondary education
The mavo programme lasts four years and trains for senior secondary vocational education (mbo). After obtaining the mavo diploma, pupils can move on to the fourth year of havo
The mavo course focuses on knowledge and skills. In order to prepare pupils well for further education and the labour market, our teaching is geared to the pupils’ living environment.

Bilingual mavo

Bilingual general secondary education
In our bilingual mavo programme, the subjects biology, geography, history, drama, physical education and drawing, together with some projects, are taught in English. Students also receive extra hours of English. In addition, multicultural studies is taught in English in the second year. Our tmavo programme has been inspected by the European Platform/Nuffic and now has official bilingual mavo status.

In the first year there is a (t)havo/mavo combination class if there are enough applicants.

From school year 2025-2026, we will no longer offer the choice bilingual mavo in the bridge class.

Havo

Higher general secondary education
The havo programme lasts five years and trains for college education. After obtaining the havo diploma, pupils can transfer to the fifth year of vwo.

Bilingual havo

Bilingual senior general secondary education
The level of thavo is similar to the regular havo programme. The difference is that the instructional and communication for about half of the subjects is English. In the first three years, this concerns the subjects physics, drama, English, mathematics, chemistry, geography, biology, history, physical education and multicultural studies. In addition, students receive more hours of English. The other subjects are taught in Dutch, which is sufficient for a good development of Dutch at havo level. Students complete the programme with an IB-English B certificate.

Vwo

Pre-university education
Vwo is the collective name for gymnasium and atheneum. Both types of education last six years and train for university (WO) and HBO.

Classical languages (Greek and Latin) are taught at the grammar school.

Bilingual vwo

Bilingual preparatory science education
The tvwo is a bilingual vwo programme. In this programme, English is the language of instruction and interaction for: English, history, physics, drama, chemistry, geography, biology, physical education, multicultural studies, big history and mathematics. The other subjects are taught in Dutch. The bilingual vwo runs from the first year to the examination. Students complete the programme with an IB-English A certificate.

Our bilingual vwo programme has the qualification ‘Senior TTO school’. We charge an additional voluntary parental contribution for this course. The amount of this contribution depends on the year of study.