The article describes the method for forming the heath-saving component (HSC) of basic school students’ digital competence that involves the purposeful acquis-tion of the ability to health-saving use of ICT in educational process. The basis for named method implementation is the author's course of training session, covering 12 academic hours and designed for 5-9 grades classes (10(11)-15 years old students). The training session can be conducted within the compulsory subjects or electives in groups of up to 15 students. In the article the named course tasks are defined, the content units, principles and methods are represented. The recommendations for the final control (group project) are given. An empirical study showed that in the experimental group that studied under the author's method, the number of students with a low level decreased significantly, while the number of students with average and high levels of HSC increased. These results are much ahead of those obtained in the control group. Consequently, the results of the experiment showed the effectiveness of the author's method for forming HSC of basic school students’ digital competence.