:00:00. > :00:00.Morning, guys, Ricky here live with your Friday Newsround.
:00:00. > :00:15.I'm at William Shakespeare's old school 400 years on from his death.
:00:16. > :00:21.And these kids in Leicester on why the Foxes can
:00:22. > :00:24.And hundreds of beacons are lit up for the
:00:25. > :00:32.First, it's a big weekend for William Shakespeare fans.
:00:33. > :00:36.As celebrations kick off to remeber 400 years since the death of
:00:37. > :00:41.Leah is in his birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon,
:00:42. > :00:44.for us this morning and inside a very old class room.
:00:45. > :00:58.Hello, we are in what would have been William Shakespeare's old
:00:59. > :01:03.school. He would have come here from the ages of around five or six, and
:01:04. > :01:07.it would have looked something like this. There are no desks, there is a
:01:08. > :01:12.teacher at the front of the class, and they are chanting, that is how
:01:13. > :01:16.classes that have gone back then. He was responsible for big plays like
:01:17. > :01:18.Romeo and Juliet and a Midsummer nights dream and I have been finding
:01:19. > :01:21.out why is so important. Without even knowing it,
:01:22. > :01:24.we owe quite a lot of the language It's thought he came up with words
:01:25. > :01:28.like excellent, gloomy, and even coined the phrase
:01:29. > :01:30."budge an inch." The thing is with Shakespeare,
:01:31. > :01:35.you don't have to understand What I love about him is, if you get
:01:36. > :01:39.a grasp of characters and themes, And that's happening
:01:40. > :01:44.at this school in Cheshire. Kids are tackling one of his more
:01:45. > :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. > :01:53.the children's Shakespeare Festival. They're rehearsing for a big
:01:54. > :01:55.performance at Manchester's Exchange Theatre, and some had never heard
:01:56. > :02:01.of William Shakespeare before now. It's just incredible how long his
:02:02. > :02:05.plays have been going on for. Until about seven years old,
:02:06. > :02:09.I didn't really know about, What I find impressive is the fact
:02:10. > :02:16.that he wrote around 38 plays Shakespeare really made a name
:02:17. > :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. > :02:28.author Michael Rosen. A girl from a primary school once
:02:29. > :02:31.told me, she said, the thing about Shakespeare is, you get
:02:32. > :02:35.to the big stuff really quickly. You get to stuff like love and death
:02:36. > :02:41.and greed and jealousy and hate, all those big feelings,
:02:42. > :02:44.and you get to them really quickly. For these children, the hope is,
:02:45. > :02:50.400 years on from today, everyone will still be
:02:51. > :03:06.talking about Britain's This is still functioning school
:03:07. > :03:09.today. I am joined by the headmaster. The children in my
:03:10. > :03:12.report said that they hope that in 400 years we will still be talking
:03:13. > :03:20.about William Shakespeare, are you surprised we are talking about him
:03:21. > :03:24.not at all. Genius takes various forms, Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci,
:03:25. > :03:28.various places across the world at different times, but William
:03:29. > :03:35.Shakespeare and struck upon a, he was born with a genius to write
:03:36. > :03:40.poems. -- and Stratford upon Avon. This school is going to be open to
:03:41. > :03:46.the public to look around. Pascal, you are experiencing a Tudor lesson,
:03:47. > :03:49.how has it been to be experiencing what William Shakespeare went
:03:50. > :03:54.through? It is interesting to see what subjects they learnt, Latin,
:03:55. > :04:03.rhetoric and greet. Interesting to see how they were taught, they were
:04:04. > :04:12.taught plays in Latin. No desks, is not strange? It is fun to have it on
:04:13. > :04:14.your lap. Was Shakespeare important? Definitely coming he invented a lot
:04:15. > :04:27.of words in English language and made a lot more literate, and I
:04:28. > :04:32.Macbeth is amazing. Talking of Macbeth, head online, Michael Rosen
:04:33. > :04:36.has broken down Macbeth. It is very gory, going have a listen. We all
:04:37. > :04:42.know that Shakespeare was the of comedy. Have a look at some of our
:04:43. > :04:51.bloopers, we did not always get our lines right. We will hand back now.
:04:52. > :04:56.That is my favourite thing on line today, how many times did you get
:04:57. > :04:59.your lines wrong? That is embarrassing, I think about 15
:05:00. > :05:03.times. But it was a lot of fun. It is brilliant. Check that out on the
:05:04. > :05:05.newsround website. US President Barack Obama
:05:06. > :05:08.is in the UK for a three-day visit. He arrived by plane last night
:05:09. > :05:11.from Saudi Arabia. Obama is set to talk about how
:05:12. > :05:14.he thinks the UK should work He'll also be having some fun
:05:15. > :05:18.though, he and First Lady Michelle are having lunch with
:05:19. > :05:21.the Queen today. Well, Her Majesty has been
:05:22. > :05:23.celebrating her 90th birthday at Windsor Castle by lighting
:05:24. > :05:26.the first of nearly 900 beacons, dotted here in the UK
:05:27. > :05:28.and around the world. From the Shetland Islands
:05:29. > :05:31.in Scotland to Wales' capital While in Gibraltar,
:05:32. > :05:36.they beamed this image Arsenal have moved to third spot
:05:37. > :05:43.in the Premier League race after beating West Bromwich Albion
:05:44. > :05:45.last night. But there were quite a few empty
:05:46. > :05:48.seats, with some fans not turning up to watch Alexis Sanchez score twice
:05:49. > :05:54.in the first half and take his That's all from me, Newsround's
:05:55. > :05:58.back this afternoon.