关键词: 课程, 健康与体育, 新西兰, 启示

Abstract: This paper will analyze and research the New Zealand Curriculum (2007) and the area of Health and Physical Education. Health and physical education in New Zealand is a comprehensive course, covering three themes of health education, physical education and home economics. Under the guidance of the national curriculum vision and purpose, it integrates the three themes and helps to carry out the learning activities on the basis of four main lines, four basic concepts and seven key learning areas. It also pays attention to the integration of the eight principles and values in the implementation process of national program, which aims to cultivate the students' competence in thinking, using language, texts and symbols, self-managing, getting along with others, participating and dedicating so as to develop students into life-long learners that meet the needs of the society and can make contributions to the wellbeing of themselves, of their communities, and even the whole society. It has six features: the unique Logo contains the course's design concept with the focus of the curriculum on "Health". The categories of the course are weakened while the flexibility of the learning level is strengthened. The curriculum arrangement and implementation emphasizes the students’ ability and the standards of the learning evaluation system are consistent with the national education qualification certification system. The New Zealand Curriculum and the area of Health and Physical Education give us the following enlightenments: In the process of deepening the reform of physical education and health, we should strengthen the infiltration of traditional sports culture, reinforce the cultivation of student's ability and intensify the integrated planning of the curriculum standard, teaching material, teaching, evaluation and so on.

Key words: curriculum, health and physical education , New Zealand, implication