Shared Seasoned Journal

ABSTRACT The study investigated the relationship between home-school partnership and the academic performance of the pupils in Social Studies in public primary schools in Ghana. The population of this study consisted of all primary five pupils in all the public primary schools in the country. The study adopted Ex-post facto research design while simple random sampling technique was used in selecting the respondents. Data was obtained using a research questionnaire “Home- School Partnership Questionnaire (HSPQ)” for data collection tagged. Data obtained from respondents were analysed using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) while Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha levels. It was concluded that there is significant relationship between reading at home and pupils’ performance in school work. Also, volunteering has influence on children’s’ performance in school work. It was therefore recommended that schools should create occasions where parents are invited to give talks on things that bother the child, at home and in schools. KEY WORDS: Home-schools partnership, pupils’ reading at home, pupils’ performance, volunteering