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
My father at war
Greenfield Community College
Aged 11
I’m a soldier
Greenfield community college
Aged 12
Dead.
Parkside Academy
Aged 12
The young soldier
The Academy at Shotton Hall
Aged 12
Trench Life
Parkside Academy
Aged 12
War cry
The academy of shotton hall school
Aged 12
We Remember You
Belmont Community School
Aged 14
Remember Them
Belmont Community School
Aged 15
The Lost Soldier
Belmont Community School
Aged 15
How to Die
Belmont Community School
Aged 15
Devastation across the nation
Parkside Academy
Aged 12
The young soldier
The Academy at Shotton Hall
Aged 12
a poem for peace
Parkside academy
Aged 13
Who will remember?
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 16
As They Go
Parkside Academy
Aged 12
The world at war
Parkside Acadamy
Aged 11
The world at war
Parkside Acadamy
Aged 11
Hell!
Parkside Academy
Aged 11
Geordie Soldier
Belmont Community School
Aged 14
We will never forget them
Belmont Community School
Aged 15