Principal Ronda Moon said children were fast becoming smarter than their parents when it came to technology, and she wanted to better equip her students with skills necessary in the future.

"Technology is going to play a significant role in their employment," she said.

"They use coding in all sorts of jobs now ... there's a significant number of employment positions [at present] that cannot be filled because they can't find people with the expertise in coding."

The primary school has already implemented changes to learning which focus more on the "stages" of a child's development as opposed to what class their age falls into, and incorporating technology such as portable devices to assist in lessons.

President of the school's P&C Boris Baraldi said he was excited to watch the coding class.

"I see that the kids were quite engaged, it's really teaching them the life skills of problem solving, how to look at things from a different point of view," Mr Baraldi said.

"The Illawarra has been traditionally a manufacturing base steel town, this is just another form of manufacturing.

"It is really the jobs of the future, and we shouldn't be following, we should be the leaders in this."