Article 42
"States Parties undertake to make the principles and provisions of the Convention widely known, by appropriate and active means, to adults and children alike."

So a basic starting point is that children learn there is a convention, what it generally covers, its values and meaning, and how to easily find its contents.

Various NGOs and charities supply free copies of leaflets for young people that list and explain the articles of the UNCRC, these can be supported with posters.

A school could ensure that all its children, as a certain age, get a copy of the UNCRC, and that there are posters promoting and explaining it in classrooms or corridors. Links to such documents are listed below.

To find out how to run an assembly that uses Mary Shelley’s story of Frankenstein to illustrate the need for rights you can look at the Teachers TV programme on Rights and Responsibilities, 13 minutes into the programme. click here. There are also downloadable support materials including a card game, and a case study of the material being used as a part of secondary school students training primary children about rights. Click here

UNICEF Little Book of Children’s Rights:
click here

A beautifully illustrated booklet on the CRC:
click here

Information sheet for older students:
click here

Poster:
click here

The full convention:
click here

So this is the starting point, that children and the adults who work with them at school know of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The next step is to look at how this can affect the way the school works.