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Care and welfare

If you want to work with people later on, you yourself are your most important instrument. After all, you have to help others or teach them something. That's why at Care and Wellness you get to know yourself as well as the people you might work with.

In the Care and Wellness plaza, you mimic all kinds of practical situations at the different workplaces. This makes the lessons very varied. 

Sometimes you work individually and sometimes you work together in a group. You will then work on a piece of work or presentation. There will also be role plays, then you practice with each other. And sometimes you work with outside people. 

Care and Welfare at vmbo basic/framework

Are you in vmbo b/k and do you choose Care and Welfare? Then in the second year you will receive four lessons for half a year in the optional subject Welfare, child and youth. From year 3 you follow four compulsory profile modules.

In addition to the profile modules, you will have cooking classes in years 3 and 4. In the fourth year you will receive first aid and choose two electives. 

In both year 3 and year 4, you will do a two-week internship. This allows you to apply what you learn in practice and find out whether you like a particular profession or not.

Care and Wellness on mavo mixed curriculum

Are you in mavo gl and do you choose Zorg en Welzijn? Then in year 3 you will follow the profile module Human and Activity and one elective. You will also take cooking lessons.


In Year 4, you will take the Human and Healthcare profile module and one elective. You will also receive first aid lessons.

In Year 3 you will do a week's internship.

What can you do with this profile?

With your diploma you can move on to a level 2, 3 or 4 MBO program to become, for example, a teaching assistant, caregiver, pedagogical employee in a daycare center, beautician or sports instructor. And of course there are many more possibilities.