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
World War Death
Carmel College
Aged 11
World War One
Carmel College
Aged 11
The Days
carmel college
Aged 14
England at war
Carmel College
Aged 11
The Devil Comes For You Tonight
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 14
Why has it come to this?
Carmel College
Aged 14
Patriotic Poem
Belmont Community School
Aged 15
Reunited Heroes
Belmont Community School
Aged 15
The War Goes On
Greenfield Community and Arts College
Aged 11
Soldier
carmel college
Aged 11
Shaken
Greenfield Community and Arts College
Aged 11
World at war
Carmel college
Aged 11
Disaster
carmel college
Aged 11
We’re at war
Carmel College
Aged 11
World at War
Carmel Collage
Aged 11
The Great War
Carmel College
Aged 11
Bang
carmel college
Aged 11
Forever
Belmont Community School
Aged 15
Worrying World War I
Carmel college
Aged 12
R.I.P
Sedgefield Community College
Aged 12