Colleen Elkins – Gifted and Talented Co-ordinator – K-6

Ethics Olympiad

Do you need a reason to be happy?
Do you need others to be happy?
Is it okay to eat animals that are not intelligent?

These are just some of the questions that our ‘ethletes’ had to grapple with in discussion with other schools during the Junior Ethics Olympiad on Wednesday 9 June 2021.

This was the inaugural Olympiad for Primary Schools. Before the event, our students met several times, in order to contemplate some of the ethical questions.

The event ran as outlined below:

Our team worked well collaboratively, listened carefully to arguments delivered and presented some very deep and thoughtful points of view, when put on the spot.

Well done to all team members: Micah Esra, Cyrus Waldner, Marco Meer, Kayla Strous, Leah Zipser, Theo Salek and Jake Rosenfeld.

We look forward to taking part next year.