The Northern Echo's Schools' Poetry Competition
The Northern Echo appealed to all secondary schools in the region to get involved and to get their pupils writing a poem to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.
The war inspired some of the greatest poems in the English language and it was the current generation's turn to put their thoughts and feelings in words.
The winner, 14-year-old Olivia Skilbeck was chosen by a panel of experts and received the latest iPad. The top ten poems were included in a special edition of The Northern Echo published on Remembrance Sunday – November 9.
Click here to read Olivia's poem, Blood on the Battlefield, along with work by the other finalists.The competition, which is now closed to entries received a huge response from schools across the region and you can read their poems below.
Click on the title to read the full poem
Prisoners Poppies
shotton hall
Aged 11
Remember
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 12
Silence
Durham Sixth Form Centre
Aged 16
Trench Talk
Durham Sixth Form Centre
Aged 16
Sadness Of 3
Parkside Academy
Aged 12
The young soldier
The Academy at Shotton Hall
Aged 12
Soldier
Greenfield Community Collage
Aged 11
Flanders Field
Greenfield Community and Arts College
Aged 11
Left for Dead
Greenfield Community and Arts College
Aged 11
Untitled
Greenfield Community and Arts College
Aged 11
1917
Greenfield Community and Arts College
Aged 11
The War
Greenfield community college
Aged 11
ww1 poem
greenfield community college
Aged 11
dad at war
Greenfield community collage
Aged 11
Will he ever come home
Greenfeild Community Collage
Aged 12
my life
Greenfield comminity college
Aged 11
ww1 poem
greenfield community college
Aged 12
I’m at war
Greenfield Community College
Aged 11
Father come home
greenfield community colledge
Aged 11
I Die
greenfield community collage
Aged 11