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
100 Years Past
Belmont Community School
Aged 15
One’s Sorrow…
Parkside Academy
Aged 12
sadness of 3
parkside acadmedy
Aged 12
There Is No End
Belmont Community School
Aged 15
When the Future Remembers You
Belmont Community School
Aged 15
Sadness
Parkside Academy
Aged 12
WAR
Hurworth secondry
Aged 12
The Banshee Calls
Parkside Academy
Aged 12
The World At War
Parkside Acadamy
Aged 11
A poppy red
St. Bede's School & Sixth Form College
Aged 12
mustard gas! quick boys run
parkside academy
Aged 11
World war 1
Parkside Academy
Aged 12
Is war fun?
Parkside Academy, Willington
Aged 12
The Dying Solider
Parkside Academy
Aged 13
The soldier who had no hope
Parkside Academy
Aged 12
A Birds Eye View
Parkside Academy
Aged 13
The soldier who had no hope
Parkside Academy
Aged 12
The Dying Solider
Parkside Academy
Aged 13
the sounds of war
Parkside academy
Aged 11
April 25th
Greenfield Community and Arts College
Aged 11