22/04/2016 Newsround

Good afternoon!

I'm Jenny, live with all the news you need to know this Friday!

You won't want to miss all this.

Rooney,

Rooney, what

Rooney, what a

Rooney, what a goal!

The kids hoping to be the next big sport commentating stars.

And from stars to the skies, the record-breaking solar

plane takes off again.

First, it's a big weekend for William Shakespeare fans.

As celebrations kick off to remember 400 years since the death of

the country's best-known playwright.

He's the man behind famous plays like Romeo and Juliet,

and A Midsummer's Night Dream.

Leah's been finding out why Shakespeare really is for everyone.

Without even knowing it, we owe quite a lot of the language

we use today to William Shakespeare.

It's thought he came up with words like excellent, gloomy,

and even coined the phrase "budge an inch."

The thing is with Shakespeare, you don't have to understand

all of his language.

What I love about him is, if you get a grasp of characters and themes,

you're pretty much halfway there.

And that's happening at this school in Cheshire.

Kids are tackling one of his more complicated tragedies, King Lear.

I'll trick him into thinking that Father hates him.

This class are part of the children's Shakespeare Festival.

They're rehearsing for a big performance at Manchester's Exchange

Theatre, and some had never heard of William Shakespeare before now.

It's just incredible how long his plays have been going on for.

Until about seven years old, I didn't really know about,

I didn't know who Shakespeare was.

What I find impressive is the fact that he wrote around 38 plays

and created 1,000 words.

Shakespeare really made a name for himself when he travelled

to London, and one man who knows pretty much everything

about Shakespeare is author Michael Rosen.

A girl from a primary school once told me, she said, the thing

about Shakespeare is, you get to the big stuff really quickly.

You get to stuff like love and death and greed and jealousy and hate,

all those big feelings, and you get to them really quickly.

For these children, the hope is, 400 years on from today,

everyone will still be talking about Britain's

best-known playwright.

Thanks, Leah.

Time for a quick round-up of some other big stories.

The company that owns Alton Towers has admitted breaking Health

and Safety laws over the Smiler rollercoaster crash last June,

when five people were seriously hurt.

Merlin Attractions has been told it might have to pay a big fine.

A Sats spelling test, due to be taken by half-a-million

seven year olds in England next month, has been scrapped.

It's after it was accidentally put online as a practice

paper by officials.

And a plane that flies using only energy from the Sun has

continued its journey around the world.

Solar Impluse 2 had to stop in Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean last

July because of battery problems.

But they've now been fixed.

Knowledge, enthusiasm and a passion for sport -

just some of the things you need to be a super star

radio commentator.

I've been finding out how you could get yourself on the airwaves.

Takes the shot!

Rooney, what a goal!

The Manchester United Number 10 does it again.

Have you ever listened to sport commentators and thought,

I could do that?

Well, now could be your chance.

BBC Radio 5 Live want to search the country

for a brand-new star and, today, they have launched a

Commentator of the Year competition.

It's open to anyone aged 11 to 15.

All you have to do is record yourself commentating on one of five

key sporting moments.

The challenge of commentating is to convey the excitement,

drama of a great sporting moment when you know the person who's

listening can't see any of it.

What I would want to hear is someone who's got that natural

enthusiasm, someone who knows what they're talking about.

And also, what I want is a little bit of the person.

Three, two, one, action!

Throw-in on the right side here...

These students from Warrington are having a go.

Look at that, absolutely astonishing!

It was quite exciting, to be honest.

I've never done anything like this before.

I found it really nerve-wracking.

It's not easy to think of things off the top of your head.

I've learned, like, how to approach it and what sort

of knowledge you need.

And you never know, the next person to pick up a mic

like this could be you.

What a finish!

APPLAUSE.

That's all from the team today, but Newsround's back,

right here, all weekend.

Have a brilliant evening!