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
memories of war
sedgefield community college
Aged 12
What Once Was
Sedgefiled Community College
Aged 12
War
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 12
World War 1 poem
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 12
Gone But Not Forgotten
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 12
Gassed.
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 13
Crimson on Mud
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 12
Prisoners Of War
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 13
We Will Remember
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 12
Send us Home!
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 12
Prayers for Mercy
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 12
Dying…
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 12
Hope
Sedgefield Community Collage
Aged 12
Hope, glory, forever.
Sedgefield Primary School
Aged 12
We Will Fight
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 12
Bang bang!
Carmel College
Aged 14
The Poppies Growing
Carmel College
Aged 11
Never forget!
Carmel College
Aged 11
Pride in Poppies
Carmel College
Aged 11
Unaware
Carmel College
Aged 14