homework diary

English

Noun

homework diary (plural homework diaries)

1. (chiefly UK) A journal given by a teacher to a student to keep track of homework to be completed, often requiring a guardian to sign their name at regular intervals.
   • 2016 April 18, Emma John, “Confessions of a teenage cricket fan: share your memorabilia”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 2016-06-22:

     Several readers rued their unfinished sticker albums (perhaps we should set up a swapsies group) and Tiffany shared a photograph of her old homework diary, which had glued to it, beneath carefully written reminders to do her German exercises, a picture of two England cricketers. "I also painted a massive portrait of Allan Donald for GCSE art," she said.

   • 2020 February 3, “School withdraws James Bulger homework after complaints”, in BBC News‎^[2], archived from the original on 2022-01-30:

     A note in his son's homework diary asked children to "find out some information or background knowledge" on the murder.

   • 2021 September 30, Anna Hart, “I've found the secret to being the best kind of house guest”, in The Daily Telegraph‎^[3], archived from the original on 2021-12-16:

     I sometimes find street art fairly humdrum – all cheesy symbolism, with female portraits resembling perfume ads and far too many skulls and aliens, the sort of stuff I scribbled all over my homework diary at school.

References

• “homework diary”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.