The BMRB Social Research into Parental Involvement in Education, which surveyed 2,019 households with children aged five to 16 at state schools, found that awareness of the daily maths lesson had decreased since 1999, despite Government efforts to involve parents more closely in their children's education.
Terms relating to the national curriculum, such as SATs, performance tables and key stages were better known than the home-school agreement, which more than one-third (35 per cent) of parents claimed not to have heard of even though all should have been asked to sign one.
The research found around one in three parents felt 'very involved' in their child's school life, with primary school parents more likely to feel this way than secondary school parents. Mothers were also more likely to feel 'very involved' than fathers.
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