Episode 13 Help! My School Trip Is Magic

It's term time again,

and our four magicians have left school on a brand-new mission.

But do you think you'd recognise them

if they were outside the classroom?

Do you?

Now's your chance cos they're going deeper undercover,

with new disguises, ambitious costumes

and even taller tales.

This time we're taking unsuspecting kids out of school,

piling them on coaches and sending them on school trips.

They're off to visit some amazing locations

where they'll witness incredible magic.

I was like, "Oh, my gosh!"

And once again we're hiding secret cameras in every corner

so you don't miss a trick on ANY school trip.

The magic is bigger than ever.

Wow!

It might be term time, but school's out.

I can't believe our teachers did that.

How long will it take before the classes shout...

Hello. It's me, Iain. Welcome to Help! My School Trip Is Magic!

Our magicians are no longer supply teachers.

They're now masquerading as staff in some popular attractions.

And because we know you know them, we've disguised them even more.

We've secretly filmed the results with special hidden cameras.

Let's see what's coming up in today's show.

John almost spells it out for the kids at the toy museum

but they won't believe their eyes.

Look what happens!

You've been sending in clips of all your best magic tricks,

and later on I will be picking my favourite -

it's the Wannabe Wizards.

John's also quick on the draw for Tricks Of The Trade,

with a puzzle that will leave you going round in circles.

And Katherine has these pupils thinking outside the box

on a trip that's a total gas.

Move it!

Do YOU think you'd be able to tell if your school trip was magic?

Do you?

This is Katherine, a great all-rounder.

She's got this trip squarely in her sights.

Here's Year 5 leaving the site of their school.

They're out on a trip like not other.

It'll start off educationally

and end up sensationally, with some memorable magic.

At the moment, though, only their parents and teachers know.

They're all off the Victoria And Albert Museum Of Childhood.

It includes the largest collection of dolls in the UK,

and there's over 1,000 action figures.

Is that Katherine's disguise?!

Just messing! There she is there.

John's along to play too.

The coach is en route,

and for the magic Katherine is going to drive them to distraction.

I'm hoping I'm going to keep the class motoring along

and I'm going to drive them wild with excitement

with the trick I'm going to do.

Now, that's what I call magical misdirection.

The kids have found their way here OK,

and it's time for our big kids to get to work.

The school trip are looking around the exhibits

but they're about to get a presentation on toys

in this break-out room.

But will the tension of being undercover make our magicians

break out in a sweat?

And if the kids find them out,

will they throw their toys out of the pram?

Only one way to find out.

Ready, TEDDY, go!

Hello, everyone. Welcome to the museum. My name is Marie Annette.

MARIONETTE?! She's certainly got this lot on a piece of string.

I work here, constructing new toys and repairing them,

so it's job to make sure

that everything in the museum works perfectly.

If we get sent any new toys, I'm the one who puts them together,

and this takes a long, long time,

so we've come up with lots of time-saving ideas to help us along.

And this is our semi-automatic construction device,

which helps build the toys quickly.

Like Katherine, it's good at making stuff up.

Granted, it does just look like a box, doesn't it?

Cos it's an empty box.

-But all the gubbins...

-Technical word there - gubbins.

The mechanics are all in the side, in the walls there.

I'm going to show you how it works.

So, this is a remote control, which I think is going to help

with our toy that we're going to make.

Katherine is in total control of this class.

So we'll just close it up, like that.

Now, I wonder if anyone can guess

what toy I might be making. What do you think?

-A car.

-A car? Well, let's have a look. OK...

She's putting the piece into her semi-automatic construction device.

So it's a wheel, so probably you could be right...

So we've got one of the wheels there and another wheel.

Where there's a WHEEL, there's a way to trick them!

So let's put all the pieces in. We have...

All the separate pieces of the toy car are going into that box.

And then all we need to do is close the box, like that,

and press the "assemble" button...

Uh-oh, she just pressed

the red button. You're always told not to do that.

Wait a few moments.

Remember, that box was empty before,

and has now just got all the bits inside it.

Katherine better not let the side down.

Oh, she has. Whoa!

Look at that! It's cool, isn't it?

The toy car's the star! The bits were magically

joined in the box, and they can't work it out.

Katherine introduced her empty box of tricks,

but she was just toying with them.

And this is our semi-automatic construction device.

She carefully placed parts of the plastic car inside.

When she opened the box the car was made up. And so are the class.

Look at that! It's cool, isn't it?

That was an impressive trick,

but it's all building to an even bigger surprise.

Look what happens.

Now John is going to set you a magical challenge

in Tricks Of The Trade.

If you fancy yourself as a magician,

here's a trick you can try on your mates.

John is going to show you how to draw a circle with

a dot inside it, like this, without removing his pen from the paper.

Can you beat him to the draw on this trick?

Find out how he does it later in the show.

It's going to send you in circles.

Back to the museum,

where Katherine's driven this school trip to distraction.

Look at that. It's cool, isn't it?

Now it's time for more childhood-themed magic

from childish John.

He's going to talk to you

-a little bit about bigger toys.

-Hello, boys and girls.

-ALL:

-Hello.

How are you? Now, my name is Ian - Ian Struction.

Ian Struction?! More like a complete CON-struction.

I work here. I also help design new toys - you know, new things

that need to be made, I'll have to do that.

Honestly, it's really exciting. I'm like a big kid, me.

He's not wrong there.

A big kid in my own little toy shop making toys - it's fantastic.

And I love toys meself, and I've been working on a special range -

what we call my XXL range, right,

cos I think of myself as a XXL sort of a guy, you know.

Certainly larger than life.

So I'm working on XXL toys - you know,

toys that are normal toys but we just make them bigger.

So I've worked on things like, er, I worked on toy cars,

I made toy cars a lot bigger so you can sit in them, you know.

What, like a car?

And then, er, toy furniture, I made big toy furniture

so you could, like, lie in a toy bed or whatever.

Like a bed.

And then I worked on, like, I made a giant dolls' house, you know,

a really big dolls' house.

To be honest it was just like a real house, except it cost more,

so that wasn't very popular - it never caught on.

The kids haven't caught on.

But I've made lots and lots of stuff and I'm working on a new XXL range,

er, based on these things here.

Let me show you. See if you can tell me what these are.

Anybody know what these are? Yes?

Alphabet blocks.

They're building blocks, aren't they? Little building blocks.

The build-up to the big trick begins.

Do you know what I like about building blocks, right?

They're a clever toy cos you can play and learn.

There's nothing better than learning and playing, is there?

I love it when I can play a game

and I learn summat as well.

Who had some of these when you were a little kid,

when you were a little bairn? Did you have some?

I had a set of these when I was a bairn.

These are my two favourite letters - do you know why?

Cos when I was a little kid, me mum always used to say,

"Ian, mind your Ps and Qs."

That's what... I know, it's funny, isn't it?

Everybody should have an alphabet joke, shouldn't they?

And that's mine, like.

Now, I've been working on a large-scale version

of the building blocks. Now, I've got them here, right,

I've only got the four of them here.

But I thought, instead of playing

with your building blocks and learning,

you could play with your building blocks and get fit -

do some exercise at the same time.

So I made big building blocks - that makes sense, doesn't it?

It's going to make no sense in a minute.

So, we can do that with these building blocks.

Now, these building blocks... They're big ones.

Erm, I've got four letters and they spell a word.

Now, have a look at them,

see if you can tell me what word you think they might spell.

Is "pelh" a word?

-Yes?

-Help.

Help - that's right.

Now, I chose the word "help" cos I thought it would be really nice

if you help me.

Also a nod to the name of our show, but they haven't noticed.

-Would you like to do that?

-Yes.

You don't have to get up from where you're sat,

but you're going to help me spell the word "help".

But it's a little bit complicated

cos we're going to spell the word "help" backwards,

-which would be "ff-huh".

-Er, no, it wouldn't.

I don't know how you say "help" backwards.

So who can tell me which is the first letter we start with

if we spell "help" backwards?

That's right - P, it's over here.

Marie, would you give me a little hand?

That's it. So we do a bit of exercise

-and we build up with the blocks.

-Bending the knees to lift up the P.

They're not as heavy as I thought. Just put that there.

It's light because it's an empty block.

OK, so what's the next letter after the P?

They've put the P on the plinth -

remember, there was nothing there before.

What's the next letter?

-L.

-L! Wonderful, I'm glad you came, young lass, aye.

L, so we'll get the L here.

We'll put the L on there as well. We're getting the word now, L-P.

Right, L and the P.

Two letter blocks on the base now.

They may be spelling "help" backwards,

but whichever way you look at it it's going to spell magic.

What's the next letter? It's getting easier now, isn't it? Yes?

-E.

-E, that's right. Have we got an E, Marie?

By gum, John, there is an E.

Let's get that E and put it up here.

Help! My school trip is magic! And the third empty block built up.

Wonderful. Now, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out

what the next letter is, does it? What is it? Shout it out.

-ALL: H!

-Eee, you've sent me deaf in me other ear!

I think John needs some help.

Put it up there as well. Lovely.

The fourth and final empty block is placed on top.

That's all worked. Lovely.

You see, what that does now, that spells the word "help".

Some magic coming up, touch wood.

And because you've all helped me, right,

and you've been lovely, I can just knock on that, like that.

Whoa! Where did James come from?!

He's appeared from nowhere, and they can only stare.

I'll tell you who it is. This is James, right?

James boxed clever not to get disguised.

And he doesn't really work here,

and I must admit I don't really work here either, cos my name is John,

and I don't really talk as bad as I was talking there. I talk like this.

-Pretty close.

-And I don't work here either. I'm Katherine.

That's right. And we're all magicians,

and you've been set up by your teachers

and your parents. And there's a camera filming you here

and there's another camera at the back.

And you're all going to appear

on CBBC's Help! My School Trip Is Magic!

Now, that's what I call a magic spell,

but how did the class sum it up?

I thought it was spectacular.

This school trip turned into an assembly of a remote-controlled car.

Look at that!

When she took it out, I was so shocked.

They couldn't help but notice those alphabet blocks were empty.

They put together the big building blocks

and then the door opened and another man appeared.

Where did he come from?

When the man just popped out, I was scared.

Yeah, understandable, but James is lovely when you get to know him.

It was magic.

Yes, it was, and the class didn't "ABC" it coming.

Still to come, John reveals the secret to his magic circle

in Tricks Of The Trade.

Have you worked it out yet?

It's so light, it's actually floating.

And Katherine's trick is airborne,

but will the pupils get carried away?

Or will they realise their school trip is magic?

I wasn't expecting that at all.

But first, we asked you to send in clips of yourself

performing your best magic tricks.

We received loads of clips from all over the country.

Each week I'll be choosing a favourite Wannabe Wizard

and showing them to you guys.

Ben from Hampshire has got two great tricks,

and like any self-respecting wizard, he's obviously got a cat.

So, I brought this colouring book

and I was sad to see that there were no pictures inside to colour in.

All the pages are blank.

So, I think we'll magic up some pictures.

Now, first I need a magic wand.

You do - you need one of them, yeah.

I know, I'll magic one! Abracadabra.

Careful, you'll have someone's eye out.

Bit too big. You look after that now.

Ooh, you've been looking after this one all the time.

The sorcerer's apprentice wants a saucer of milk.

Now, let's get some pictures.

Abracadabra.

Remember, that book was empty.

Oh, awkward.

Didn't work! Try again.

Abracadabra.

One more time.

Oh, where did they come from?!

Hmm, it's going to take me a long time

to colour in all these pictures.

Unless you're magic.

-I know, we'll do some pictures using magic.

-Thought so.

Colours, colours from every nook

Fly inside my colouring book!

It's not just pictures, he also SPELLS!

Whoa! It's a technicolour dream book.

That was a stroke of genius.

Worked.

And a stroke for the cat

for good measure. There it is.

So I know something that almost everyone likes - sweets.

I love 'em, mate.

Now, what do we need for sweets?

I know - sugar.

Let's first pour in a bit of sugar.

Steady on, Ben! You said a bit.

Ah, let's put in the whole pot.

You can't add too much of a good thing, especially sugar.

What do we need next? I know - a bit of flavouring.

Good idea.

We have, er, strawberry...

-Ooh.

-Blueberry...

-Yum.

-Lime!

Not fan of that.

-Strawberry.

-Oh, why not?

Let's just put all those in.

Might as well just put it all in.

And now we need a bit of wrapping

to stop our fingers from getting all sticky when we eat it.

Very sensible, good idea.

OK, so we're going to use magic to cook it.

Cook it? In THAT thing?

Abracadabra!

Sweets!

Whoa! Loads of wrapped sweets and one sweet trick!

This is Katherine and James.

He always has a pen for autographs.

Oh, he wants Katherine's, but she's keeping it under wraps.

Ouch! Where's the pen gone?!

EAR it is!

And here's Year 4 expecting a great day out of school,

but they have no idea the trip's going to be out of this world.

They've set up by their parents

and teachers for a scientific trip that's far from formulaic.

They're going to the Royal Institution of Great Britain,

the home of science for over 200 years.

It's a real seat of learning and our world-class magicians will be

flying by the seat of their pants and the lapels of their lab coats.

First, they have to get a more studious make-over.

Meanwhile, our school trippers are incoming and unawares.

Katherine's off to get some science equipment, including vials.

Speaking of VILE, more make-up for James, please.

Only joking, mate, you look absolutely... Oh, dear.

They think they're here for an educational trip

so let's learn what our magicians have lined up.

Today, we're going to do a great trick with an everyday object -

in this case it's going to be a fizzy drink -

and we're going to have some of the class shake it up,

so they'll think that it'll pop and go all over the place.

The kids are all over the place in the museum,

which features iconic scientific discoveries.

And James has found Katherine just in time.

The cameras are being hidden with scientific precision.

Katherine and James are on their way up.

The kids are entering the institution's impressive library,

where James is going to lecture them on some fizzy physics.

We have for you today a small presentation on gases.

Now, who can be very clever and tell me

the name of the gas that we breathe in?

-Oxygen.

-It's oxygen, isn't it?

We breathe in oxygen into our bodies and our lungs transfer that

round our vital organs and then we breathe out

carbon dioxide, don't we?

So far, so true.

Now, carbon dioxide as a gas has many different uses,

one of which is included just here in these drinks.

Can anybody guess what effect carbon dioxide might have on these drinks?

Yes?

-It makes them fizz.

-It does makes them fizz.

Carbon dioxide is added to the liquid

in a process called carbonation,

and what happens is the gas is introduced to the liquid

and then contained within the pressure of the can.

Once the can is opened, the pressure is released

and therefore the drink has bubbles.

And we're going to try something today

called carbonation transference.

Here's where the formula gets to form.

James has strayed into science fiction.

And in order to do that, we need to use a couple of drinks -

one for you and one for me. So, um, which drink shall we use for you?

-Lemonade.

-Lemonade?

OK, we'll use the lemonade for you,

which gives us some more drinks leftover here.

And which one shall I use?

-Yes?

-Cola.

-Cola. What we're going to do is take this,

and I'd like you to take this and give it a little shake, OK?

Give it a good shake, good shake.

They don't need a second invitation to shake that can up.

And pass it along the line and give it a good shake.

Go crazy! Yes, yes, yes.

They want to see that drink go all over James -

that's why they're shaking it so vigorously.

Brilliant shake there, wonderful! And one more. Excellent.

That can is going to blow.

So, er, what would happen if I were to open this?

What? Yes, sorry, Oh, no, I wouldn't do it, of course.

Tempting, though, innit?

The gas would come out and explode, but what would happen

if I opened THIS one?

Nothing.

That's because, at the moment, we have two examples

in two very different states.

Remember, the red can has been shaken, the blue one hasn't.

Now, to demonstrate that, if you imagine this little black ball

is a molecule inside this can here.

What's happening is it's currently bouncing

all over the sides of the can - very excited.

That ball stands for a bouncing bubble of fizz.

Whereas this can has not been shaken

and therefore its molecules do not bounce at all.

Hang on a second, that ball was bouncing and now it's a dead weight.

They're really quite fixed in their condition.

The class are impressed but not suspicious yet.

Now, this might get a bit messy so we're just going to put that there.

Messy! Great stuff, can't wait till James gets soaked!

This involves the next stage now, which is

the transference of the carbonised energy,

and in order to do that

we're going to use this little tool, which doesn't look like much,

but this is a synthetic material which absorbs gas.

Now, if we do this...

..and then we take it to the other can...

Does James take me for a sucker?

You can't transfer fizz from one can to another.

Hopefully, if that's worked, I can take this can, which you shook,

and you shook and you shook and you shook and you shook,

and we all shook.

Stand by, take cover.

Whoa!

Whoa, indeed! Great reaction for simply opening a can.

But where did the fizz go?

They shook it up good and proper.

And nothing happens

because the energy has been transferred over into this lemonade,

which has been here since the very start and untouched by human hand.

Now, this won't fizz, will it?

We'll just open this up...

Boom! The gases have been transferred -

not by osmosis but by his magic.

First, James had the class shake up one can so it was mega-fizzy.

The other wasn't touched.

Using his magic sucker,

he transferred the fizz from one to the other.

It was a fizzy-pop swap-aroo.

Will Katherine be able to keep a lid on it

when the gas sends this box out of control?

Wow, this is so exciting!

You're actually witnessing a new scientific discovery.

Now it's time for John to reveal the secret in Tricks Of The Trade.

John will show you how to draw a circle with

a dot inside it, like this, without removing his pen from the paper.

Have you worked it out yet?

Do you use a magical pen?

Oh, no. Do you move the paper around the pen? Not likely.

Here's how -

fold a corner into the middle...

Draw a dot at the point of the corner.

Without lifting your pen,

draw a line towards you over the folded section.

When you are near the edge, start to draw your circle.

Then unfold the corner and complete the circle.

And there you have it.

A dot inside a circle drawn without removing your pen.

You need never worry about that problem again.

Back to the science institution, where James's magic bubbled over.

Now Katherine's about to put her foot on the gas.

-Hello, children. ALL:

-Hello.

I've been working on harnessing

the gas that's produced from carbonation.

And the idea is that I'll use this gas to be able to power our homes.

Ah, the power of magic is strong in this one.

Which would be very economical, it would be very ecofriendly

and, above all else, it would be completely safe.

Katherine's being very economical with the truth.

The first thing we need to do is contain the gas, and we do that

by using just a simple large cardboard box, like this.

I wondered what that was. It's been in the room the whole time.

So the great thing is, it's just a cardboard box

that enables you to recycle it.

Just a plain cardboard box, light as a feather.

And the next thing you need is a rubber tube,

which we've attached in the centre of the box.

As you do.

And then all you need is your carbonated water. There you go.

And you simply attach the end of the rubber tube

onto the mouth of the bottle, and you can see all the fizzy bubbles

going up there, and that is the bubbles and the gas travelling

out of the liquid, down the rubber tube and into the cardboard box.

So let me get this straight - Katherine is saying

one day we'll be able to power our homes

using the gas from fizzy water?

OK, I think that's the first bottle done.

And so all we need now...

What's happened to the box? Is that the gas?

So we're going to put the second bottle in.

The class have noticed something funny is going on.

It's behind you, Miss!

There we go. Let's have a look.

The class is suspicious. There's something in there, my friend! Gas!

And you can see all the fizzy bubbles are rising

all the way back up to the top,

and it travels all that gas through out of the liquid,

down the rubber tube and into the cardboard box.

We need look no more for alternative energy sources -

they're in our fridge!

Keep watching that box, though.

Wow, that's really exciting stuff, isn't it? It's very exciting.

Whoa, it's moving!

It's moving!

They couldn't help but notice.

This class is about to take off in a big way.

It's exciting, isn't it, children... THEY SHOUT OUT

..being able to harness this natural gas?

Katherine's carrying on with the presentation

and winding the class right up.

Wow, I've never seen it react like that before. This is strange.

What an actress.

Oh, my goodness.

Oh, I'm going to grab a hold of it here.

It's become so light it's actually floating.

Whoa, the box is fully up in the air by the gas power!

You're actually here witnessing a new scientific discovery!

Can Katherine get it back under control before the class lose it?

It's really moving. I'm going to just hold it down a little bit -

there we go.

Keep the gas in before the secret gets out.

I wasn't expecting that at all.

And here's something the class weren't expecting.

Is it Neanderthal man? No, it's someone more familiar.

Look who it is - it's Fergus!

I think he's been drinking a little bit too much fizzy drink.

You're a bit gassy, Fergus.

The box is powered by a different kind of gas. Poo-ee!

What have they just seen?

It's time for the secret to pop out.

We've got a confession to make.

-This is Fergus.

-And I'm Katherine.

And I'm James.

And you are all being filmed right now, this very second.

There's a camera over there, there's a camera over here

and there's a camera over there.

THEY SCREAM

You're on CBBC's Help! My School Trip is Magic!

All that, and they haven't even drunk a fizzy drink!

Like the fizz, the class just went off.

But what did they think of this effervescent lesson?

I couldn't believe it, I couldn't even talk.

Katherine transferred fizz from a bottle into a big brown box

and it started to move on its own.

It's moving!

When we told her that it was shaking, she lifted it up

and it was, like, kind of like floating in the air.

You're actually here witnessing a new scientific discovery!

How was it doing that?! There was nothing underneath it.

I thought there was nobody in there, but there was someone in there.

And that someone was Fergus.

He was obviously making his own gas in there.

I thought that trick was awesome.

They can all breathe out now. The magic was awesome

and they didn't "CO2" it coming.

I keep my pet mouse in here.

I call him Boats.

I know that's a strange name for a mouse, but it's what I call him.

He drinks loads of fizzy drinks - how come HE doesn't float?

Oh, that really floats my Boats.

The mouse's name is Boats.

That's a joke.

See you later. But until then, if you're on a school trip

and you think something magic's going on,

maybe you'll find yourself shouting, Help! My...School Trip Is Magic!

What are you doing here?