🤞🏻 Why

The purpose of The Mindful Digital Collective is to empower children in Year 5 and 6 to become responsible and creative digital citizens. Our goal is to prepare them for secondary school by helping them develop essential skills for navigating the digital world. By fostering empathy, problem-solving, and critical thinking, we aim to equip children with the tools they need to face digital challenges confidently and responsibly as they grow older.

🎨 How

In the club, children won't be sitting behind a screen for an hour. Instead, they'll engage in hands-on activities like interviews, brainstorming sessions, and sketching ideas to solve real-world digital challenges. This approach fosters creativity, teamwork, and effective communication, helping children understand the problems they may face in the digital world and develop solutions collaboratively.

🤷🏼‍♂️ What

The Mindful Digital Collective is an after-school club designed for children in Year 5 and 6 of primary schools. Over the course of 6 weeks, children participate in one-hour weekly sessions that focus on real-life digital challenges. We provide all materials, and the club is free of charge. All we need is access to a room with a screen and a whiteboard. Every child plays an active role in the team, ensuring they’re fully engaged in the process.

Here’s a snapshot of the details:

• It's a 6-week club (although we can be flexible depending on when you'd like to run it).

• Ideally, around 7-8 children to begin with. Its important the group feel like a team

• The sessions last for 1 hour.

• It's free, (we don’t believe children should need to pay for this) and we will provide all the materials. We would just need a room, a screen, and a whiteboard.

• Ideally, it’s for Year 5-6, but Year 6 would be preferred as it would be more useful for them at this stage.

🧑🏻‍💻 Who

Nick is a product designer with over 15 years of experience, having worked with renowned companies like BBC, ASOS, Microsoft, British Gas, Tesco, Lexus, and many more. Over the years, he has helped hundreds of people solve complex challenges and create impactful business solutions.

Now, Nick is using those learnings to help children understand and solve some of the most important challenges they will face online. As a dad of three, he’s passionate about supporting his own family in navigating the digital world.

Four years ago, Nick and his family moved to Bridport and has never looked back since. He’s committed to helping the community thrive and making the area leaders in how we introduce online safety to the children.

More on Nick here:

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🎯 Our 2025 goal

We aim to run a club or deliver talks to every primary school in the Bridport area. By doing this, we will assess whether the children benefit from the program. If they do, and we receive positive feedback from them, the parents and teachers, we plan to apply for funding to sustain and expand the initiative. If we can help every child become a little more mindful online, and empower them to just stop and think, we’ll consider it a success, knowing we’ve made a difference.

How we’re doing…

• 📚 Bridport Primary School - ⭐️ Signed Up

• 📚 Symondsbury Church of England Primary School - ⭐️ Signed Up

• 📚 Parrett and Axe CE VA Primary School - 🙏 Expressed Interest

• 📚 St Mary's Church of England Primary School

• 📚 St Catherine's Roman Catholic Primary School

• 📚 Burton Bradstock Church of England School

• 📚 Charmouth Primary School

• 📚 Loders Church of England Primary Academy

• 📚 Marshwood Church of England Primary Academy

• 📚 Powerstock Church of England Primary School

• 📚 Salway Ash Church of England Primary School - 🙏 Expressed Interest

Note: If your school is not on the list and your interested, please get in touch, we would love to work with you.

🙏 Interested?

Get in touch and we’ll send you more information on the club. We want to get as many children involved as we can so we can work around you and tailor the club to your school.