Developing the Draft Statement
This material is reproduced from Curriculum Development Update 29, 6 April 1998
The draft statement Health
and Physical Education in the New Zealand Curriculum is
the sixth of seven national curriculum statements to be developed
as part of the reform of the New Zealand Curriculum. It is the key
statement within the essential learning area of health and physical
well-being.
The draft has taken three years to write and involved considerable thought and debate by leading educators in the disciplines of physical education, health education, and home economics.
In developing the curriculum statement, the Ministry of Education employed the following process:
Commission reviews of national and international literature on health education and physical education
Consider major issues affecting the health and physical
well-being of young people in New Zealand such as youth suicide,
teenage pregnancy, abortion, sexually transmitted infections,
drug-related suspension, bullying in schools, and violence in
sport
Review best practice in New Zealand in health education, physical education, and home economics
Develop policy specifications, advertise for writers, and award contract (to Christchurch College of Education who consulted widely during the development of the draft manuscript)
Receive the draft manuscript and consult on it
Publish the official draft national curriculum statement (in February 1998) 
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