"How was your day?"

Recently published international research confirms that teenagers do value the opportunity to discuss their school work with their parents. Andreas Schleicher oversees the exams for the OECD (the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) which conducts exams as part of the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, which tests fifteen year olds in the world’sleading industrialised nations on their reading comprehension and ability to use what they’ve learned in Maths and Science to solve real problems.Schleicher explained that his results show that parents’ engagement with their fifteen year olds is strongly associated with better performance: “Just asking your child how was their school day and showing genuine interest in the learning that they are doing can have the same impact as hours of private tutoring. It is something every parent can do.”

Mrs Evans