Since 2011 children who do not attend special religious education classes have had an option to go to philosophical ethics classes run by the charity, Primary Ethics, providing it can find and train volunteers.

Broulee Public School is one of several schools in the Eurobodalla area offering the classes, which began this year.

The primary ethics program at Broulee Public became a possibility when two parents, Tim Clare and Janine Hutton, volunteered to become its first ethics teachers.

Students from years 1 to 6 have been attending ethics classes since February 2014 and if more volunteer teachers from the wider community can be found, classes can be extended to kindergarten children.

Kimberley Love, a new volunteer, will be attending Primary Ethics face-to-face ethics teacher training in Moruya in February.

“I’m really looking forward to starting teaching ethics so that my child and others like him can use this time productively,” she said.

Broulee Public School ethics coordinator Anita Macartney said she was looking forward to seeing the ethics classes extend throughout the school.

“The children are taught to look at ethical issues from all sides and are then encouraged to make up their own minds on the issue, based on logic and sound reasons,” she said.

Anyone interested in volunteering to be a local 

primary ethics teacher should visit www.primary

ethics.com.au or contact Ms Macartney on 0407 959 602.