:00:00. > :00:07.Morning, guys, Ricky here live with your Friday Newsround.
:00:08. > :00:12.400 years on from William Shakespeare's death,
:00:13. > :00:27.And hundreds of beacons are lit up for the Queen's birthday.
:00:28. > :00:30.First, it's a big weekend for William Shakespeare fans.
:00:31. > :00:34.It's 400 years since the death of the country's best known
:00:35. > :00:38.Leah is in his birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon,
:00:39. > :00:47.Leah, it looks like you're back at school!
:00:48. > :00:52.Well, this is where we think Shakespeare began his education.
:00:53. > :00:54.He would have been about six or seven.
:00:55. > :00:57.It's here where he would have learnt about Greek classics
:00:58. > :01:08.Local children are going in right now to experience her Tudor
:01:09. > :01:12.classroom. I've been finding out why
:01:13. > :01:14.William Shakespeare Without even knowing it,
:01:15. > :01:21.we owe quite a lot of the language It's thought he came up with words
:01:22. > :01:27.like excellent, gloomy, and even coined the phrase
:01:28. > :01:31."budge an inch." The thing is with Shakespeare,
:01:32. > :01:34.you don't have to understand What I love about him is, if you get
:01:35. > :01:39.a grasp of characters and themes, And that's happening
:01:40. > :01:43.at this school in Cheshire. Kids are tackling one of his more
:01:44. > :01:48.complicated tragedies, King Lear. I'll trick him into thinking
:01:49. > :01:51.that Father hates him. This class are part of
:01:52. > :01:54.the children's Shakespeare Festival. They're rehearsing for a big
:01:55. > :01:57.performance at Manchester's Exchange Theatre, and some had never heard
:01:58. > :02:02.of William Shakespeare before now. It's just incredible how long his
:02:03. > :02:06.plays have been going on for. Until about seven years old,
:02:07. > :02:10.I didn't really know about, What I find impressive is the fact
:02:11. > :02:17.that he wrote around 38 plays Shakespeare really made a name
:02:18. > :02:22.for himself when he travelled to London, and one man who knows
:02:23. > :02:25.pretty much everything about Shakespeare is
:02:26. > :02:29.author Michael Rosen. A girl from a primary school once
:02:30. > :02:32.told me, she said, the thing about Shakespeare is, you get
:02:33. > :02:37.to the big stuff really quickly. You get to stuff like love and death
:02:38. > :02:42.and greed and jealousy and hate, all those big feelings,
:02:43. > :02:46.and you get to them really quickly. For these children, the hope is,
:02:47. > :02:50.400 years on from today, everyone will still be
:02:51. > :03:10.talking about Britain's At 8:15am, I will go inside to
:03:11. > :03:12.experience a chewed a classroom. Go online to find out what Macbeth is
:03:13. > :03:21.all about. -- a Tudor classroom. All in celebration of Shakespeare
:03:22. > :03:30.400, 400 years since his death. US President Barack Obama
:03:31. > :03:33.is in the UK for a three-day visit. He arrived by plane last night
:03:34. > :03:35.from Saudi Arabia. Obama is set to talk about how
:03:36. > :03:38.he thinks the UK should work He'll also be having some fun
:03:39. > :03:42.though, he and First Lady Michelle are having lunch with
:03:43. > :03:46.the Queen today. Well, Her Majesty has been
:03:47. > :03:48.celebrating her 90th birthday at Windsor Castle by lighting
:03:49. > :03:52.the first of nearly 900 beacons, dotted here in the UK
:03:53. > :03:55.and around the world. From the Shetland Islands
:03:56. > :03:58.in Scotland to Wales' capital While in Gibraltar,
:03:59. > :04:02.they beamed this image Arsenal have moved to third spot
:04:03. > :04:09.in the Premier League race after beating West Bromwich Albion
:04:10. > :04:11.last night. But there were quite a few empty
:04:12. > :04:14.seats, with some fans not turning up to watch Alexis Sanchez score twice
:04:15. > :04:18.in the first half and take his The Gunners have four games
:04:19. > :04:28.left to play. Now, yesterday we told you how
:04:29. > :04:30.an important spelling test Half a million children
:04:31. > :04:34.in England were going to take But teachers noticed
:04:35. > :04:37.that the test paper had been uploaded to the internet,
:04:38. > :04:39.so some children already Well, now the schools minister
:04:40. > :04:44.for England has been They're still trying to work out how
:04:45. > :04:50.the tests ended up online. That's all from me, Newsround's back
:04:51. > :04:54.right here in about half an hour.