Episode 1 Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic

It's a brand-new term and CBBC

has sent these four magicians back to school.

They're pretending to be supply teachers

so that they can perform amazing magic on unsuspecting classes.

But, because you know and love them,

this time we've cunningly disguised them.

Then we hid secret cameras all over classrooms

and watched as they taught spectacular lessons.

Well, it's flying around like a magic saucer.

-LAUGHTER

-That was sick.

It's more magic, it's more outrageous.

I was just flabbergasted.

But how long will it take before the classes shout...?

Hello, it's me, Iain, and we're back to school for a new term

as Help! My Supply Teacher Is Still Magic.

You could say it's...

Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic 2 - This Time's More Magicky.

Once again we swapped regular teachers with magicians.

And, because WE know YOU know them, we've sneakily disguised them.

We've secretly filmed the results with special cameras

hidden in the classroom.

Yeah. We're more cunning than a tree hidden behind another tree.

We're also showing you loads of other great tricks - like this.

Katherine's magic doesn't just blow your mind,

it floats it in mid air.

For Fergus's interactive illusion,

you will need a 10p, a 5p, a 50p and a 20p.

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

and, later on, I will be picking my favourite.

The wannabe wizards are back.

And John's under cover in this class of Year 5s.

The regular teacher's shoe is ruined,

but how will John reboot the lesson?

But, first, do you think you'd be able to tell

if your teacher started doing magic? Do you?

This is Katherine. She's got a black belt in magic

and she's not afraid to use it.

The disguise is on. The hidden cameras are set.

Enter Year 4. They don't know it yet but they're about to get

an amazing lesson in the ancient art of zen concentration

that will blow their minds.

So far, none of them

have noticed the hidden cameras in their school hall

or recognised Katherine as our magician.

But, they're about to have a lesson

like no other lesson they've ever had.

So, today, we are learning about concentration.

We're going to try to do an exercise that will make our concentration

much, much better.

Now, if you get to have mastery over your mind,

you can do the most amazing things.

That's what we're going to try to do today.

I want you all to make sure you're comfortably seated,

all got your legs crossed.

Just gently place your hands in your lap

so you're all relaxed. That's brilliant!

I'm going to sit up here in the same position.

Like this! With my legs crossed, like you are.

And with my hands just rested on my knees like this.

What I'd like you all to do is take a nice, deep breath in

through your nose, and out through your mouth.

Year 4 still believe that Katherine's a supply teacher.

And they're really going for the deep breathing.

So, let the magic begin.

Now, this time, what I'd like you to do is take a deep breath

-through your nose, and then I want you to go, "Omm!"

-Omm!

The class think that "omm" noise is to help them concentrate

but something much more amazing is about to happen.

Brilliant, and keep your focus on your "omm" sounds and your breathing.

Now, I've got my friend - Master Penrose - here.

And he's going to help us by ringing the chime.

TING Like this, OK. That just reminds you.

I want you to continue with that "omm" sound.

That's not Katherine's friend. It's her magician's assistant.

So, again, breathe in through your nose.

-Omm!

-Omm!

I told you this was going to be an uplifting lesson.

Keep your omming guys, that's brilliant. Keep your focus.

Make sure you're focused and you're breathing. That's brilliant.

It looks like she's holding herself up by those poles in mid air

-But the trick's not over yet, Year 4.

-Omm!

Omm!

And stop.

-Sick!

-This is incredible.

And they still don't suspect Katherine's a magician.

Now you can see what amazing things you can do

with focus and concentration.

-It's not over yet.

-Katherine's going to take it to the next level...

Now, if you focus on me, I should be able to let go.

So, make sure all your attention is on me. Ready?

Let go!

Aw! Awesome!

Look! No hands. Katherine is literally floating in mid air.

Keep your concentration up. Keep breathing.

That's really good. Keep on breathing.

-TING

-Omm!

-Omm!

Katherine's coming back down but the class will go through the roof

when she lets them in on her secret.

Keep breathing. Keep your focus up.

And stop!

OK. So... That was incredible, wasn't it?

Yes!

Right. I'm going to have to be honest.

That wasn't just mastery over mind, that was actually a magic trick

because, right now, you are all being filmed.

There's a hidden camera over there and there's one over there

because you're all going to be on Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic.

No wonder they're excited. That was a sensational trick.

Let's hear what they thought about it.

I've got to say that that was sick.

All of a sudden, she just went up.

Katherine's levitating was amazing enough

but then it got even more magical.

She let go. I thought she was going to fall down.

Katherine amazed them all by going no hands.

An incredible trick and the class had no idea

Katherine was a magician.

How long will it take you to shout...?

Later on, you'll see what happened

when John went under cover at another school.

He did a trick with the teacher's shoe but did he put his foot in it?

Right now, though, James is at a car museum and he's about to get...

I'm going to show you guys a card trick.

-Yeah.

-Now, before I do this, there are a couple of rules in magic

that I'm going to let you in on. Like a secret code thing.

Magicians keep secrets.

There are two main rules.

The first rule of magic is, when doing card tricks,

make sure people choose the card you want them to pick.

-Does that make sense?

-Yeah.

-So, let's do a bit of a test with that.

You can see all the different cards here.

So, if I said, Ellie, what's this card?

-9 of diamonds.

-9 of diamonds.

-And what's this card?

-6 of diamonds.

So, there's lots of different cards.

Now, my job is to try to make you pick the one I want you to pick.

All right? So, let's do it like this.

Zak, can you hold your first finger

out? I just want you to touch any card.

Take it out. That's fine. But don't show anybody.

Just keep it close to your chest - keep it there.

Nobody knows what the card is yet. Not even Zak.

Now, earlier on, before you guys turned up,

I stuck a card from a different deck behind this postcard

on the other side of the glass. I'm that confident.

-Shall we see what it is?

-Yep.

So, the card is the 2 of diamonds. Thank you very much.

Show everybody the card you picked.

Ah, awkward! That's the jack of spades.

Um, OK. So...

-That's not the same, is it?

-No.

Er... Well, there's red on this card and there's red on that card and...

They're both the same size.

Yeah, it's not great, is it? Um... I'll tell you what.

Let's try something. If you stand here, can you move round this way?

What's James up to? There could be some magic incoming.

Look, you can see, this is on the other side of the glass.

There's no way I can get to that. I've got a hanky here.

The second rule of magic is make sure you know what to do

if something goes wrong with the first rule.

See if I could do this.

And the card changes on the other side of the glass

into the jack of spades.

-And that is an awesome trick.

-Amazing!

I picked out a card randomly. He didn't see it.

And he took the cover off and it was the wrong card.

Then he put his hanky over it and it was the right card.

-The jack of spades.

-Out of this world - yeah!

-Awesome!

-Epic!

Now Katherine's 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.

Katherine will show you how to spin this glass of juice around

turning it upside down without spilling a drop.

Can you work out how to do it?

Keep watching and you'll find out later in this show.

It's going to be incredible!

Right now, we have something amazing for you.

Have you got a 5p, a 10p, a 20p and a 50p?

Because this is the interactive illusion.

This is a trick where you can take part at home.

So, come on. You need to pay close attention.

So, get over here. Come on! You want to join in. Get...

Hey, mind your grandad's size tens!

You ready? Here's Fergus.

You need to get those coins ready now.

I'd like you to place the coins in a straight row from left to right.

That's your left, over here. And your right over here.

The order is as follows. 10p, 5p,

50p, 20p.

The 10p will be on your left and the 20p will be on your right.

With the coins in that order,

I want you to place your hand on any one of the coins.

Got one? In a moment, I'm going to ask you to move by spelling the name

of the coin your finger is on.

For example, if you had your finger on the 50, you may move like this.

For example, F, I, F, T, Y. The choice is yours.

You can move left or right. The only thing you can't do

is jump from one end of the row to the other.

For example, you couldn't jump from the 20, all the way over to the 10.

You'd have to go back to the 50.

I'd like you to move now.

Making sure you move one space for each letter

of the coin that you're starting on.

Perfect! Now, you may - or may not -

be on the same coin.

I have no way of knowing.

Keep your finger exactly where it is.

Hm. I don't think you're on the 10p.

So, push that coin aside.

I want you to make one more move -

to the nearest coin - either right or left.

Great! Keep that finger where it is.

I think I've got it. You're not on the 5, or the 20, you're on the 50.

That's amazing!

Did it work for you?

Wow! Well, the quantity of the magic is exhausting,

and the quality has been jaw-dropping.

In fact, it's made my jaw ache!

So, I feel like I've earned a sit down.

Before I do, let's have a look at what's coming up.

It's all kinds of ridiculousness.

Fergus gets up close and magical with his signature trick.

And you see, the signature goes!

Katherine will reveal the secret in Tricks of the Trade.

Have you worked it out yet?

And watch what happens when John goes undercover in another school.

Will he fool the class or will they realise

the supply teacher is still magic?

Each week, I'm bringing you another of my new favourite magic movers

and shakers doing tricks

in their own cribs, yards and front rooms.

We call them the wannabe wizards.

So, I've got my comfy chair.

I've got my tastefully-decorated scatter cushions

and I've got my computer to watch the magic on. Let's do this already.

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 will be choosing a favourite wannabe wizard

and showing them to you guys.

My wannabe wizard this time is Matthew from Yorkshire

and he's all about the money.

As a magician, you should be able to produce money from anywhere.

But thanks to inflation,

it can go down but it can also go up.

It can feel like it disappears

but sometimes you should be able to produce it from wherever you like.

Incredible! But now for a more expensive trick.

A lot of people ask me whether it's possible to make money out of magic.

And it's simple.

All you have to do is find whatever money you have

lying around your house

and make it bigger.

-Amazing! Let's get a rewind.

-And make it...

He turned that 20 into a 50.

The real problem is it won't stay like this for ever.

But if you really want to make some money

you've got to get them to receive the bill from behind the counter

before it changes back

into the 20

pound note.

Call, calm and calculating.

That's why Matthew is my wannabe wizard this time.

Now, it's time for Katherine to reveal the secret

in tricks of the trade.

Katherine will show you how to spin this glass around turning it

upside down without spilling a drop of liquid.

Can you work it out?

How many of you got it?

Maybe you think it works by freezing the liquid. Nah!

Does it use magnets hidden in the liquid?

Don't be daft!

This is simple but very impressive.

All you do is hold the mouth of the glass

and spin it 360 degrees in one movement and without hesitating.

Something called inertia keeps the liquid in the glass

and keeps you and your friends from getting wet.

If you try it, please go outside and use water instead of juice or

else your friends might not thank you for it.

Did you get it? Are you amazing already? Cheers, Katherine.

Now Fergus is at a theme park getting up close and magical.

-Right, boys, do you know what an autograph is?

-Yes.

It's when you get a signature from a famous person.

Now, I collect them on these cards.

You can see, at the moment, I don't have any autographs.

What I'd like you to do, Joseph, is take one of these out

and be the very first autograph in my collection. Does that sound good?

-Yes.

-So then scribble your autograph, or name, across that card.

Lovely jubbly. And if you can hold it up to that camera there...

That's perfect. Good.

Now, obviously when I start collecting a lot of these autographs

going through and looking for particular ones

becomes difficult to find. Here's what's incredible.

Watch your card, Joseph. If I put your card halfway down amongst

all the others, all I have to do to get it back is say your name.

Joseph. Look, it comes back to the top.

How did he do that?!

Watch it again. This time, it's going to stay face up.

It's going to stay face up

and this time it will go two thirds of the way down in the deck.

You're going to see the moment the ink rises. At the moment nothing.

-That top card is blank.

-When I count down from three, say "Joseph."

-Three, two, one.

-Joseph!

-Look! Oh, my gosh!

Wow! Ned, can you do me a favour?

-Can you rub the card, does the ink come off?

-No.

-Tell the camera.

No, the ink doesn't come off.

But when I get lots of these autographs sometimes

I have to get rid of signatures that I don't want.

I can do that by just rubbing.

He made Joseph's signature vanish, but how?!

I like Joseph and I like your signature so I want that back.

-What do you see there?

-Blank.

It's blank on the front and back.

This trick is going to be great, unless Fergus blows it.

-He did blow it!

-Look what comes back.

They can't believe it but it's going to get even better.

Now, I'd like you to hold your right hand up and put your left hand

on top of your right hand and look after Joseph's card.

Don't let Joseph's card go.

-Now, I'm going to sign my autograph on a card, is that OK?

-Yes.

-What do you see there?

-Nothing.

-What do you see there?

-Nothing.

Blank and blank.

So, if I take the pen,

I will put my autograph across the back of this card.

Here we go.

Fergus has his own autograph and they've got Joseph's.

My autographed card, whose autographed card have you got?

-Joseph.

-Very good.

If I pick up Joseph's autographed card and mine, watch this.

-Does the ink move?

-No.

-Rub it for yourself, Joseph.

It doesn't move.

When I collect, over the course of the year, loads and loads

of autographs, it's better to not have them on two separate cards

but drag one off one of the cards and put them both together for ever.

-With Joseph on the one card!

-And just look at that.

-A great trick signed and sealed.

-Thank you very much. Well done.

-Ned, it's got my name on!

-Yeah, Ned. Leave off, mate!

He got a card and asked Joseph to sign his signature.

And then he got another card and wrote his signature on it

and then he rubbed them together and they both went on one card.

I couldn't understand it at all. It was mind blowing!

Incredible!

Wicked.

It's time for school again.

I used to love going to school, I used to love coming home as well.

It was the bit in between I wasn't a fan of!

This time it is John pretending to be a supply teacher

and trying to fool another class.

The disguise is on.

The hidden cameras are set.

This is a Year 5 class.

They don't know it yet but John is about to do some

magic about hygiene that will blow their dirty socks off.

None of them have noticed the hidden cameras or recognised

John in his disguise but will they be able to

disguise their excitement once the magic begins?

It's good to be here today.

I'm giving you a lesson on a type of personal hygiene.

Not washing and cleaning your teeth

but other things that we do to help keep ourselves looking smart.

Put your hand up if you clean your shoes.

Wow. That's impressive. Put your hands down. That's good.

I clean my shoes but it's not as popular as it used to be.

Years and years ago they used to have shoeshine boys.

They used to go on the street

and offer to polish people's shoes for just a few pence.

A bit of real history. It helps make the magic more convincing.

You don't see shoeshine boys around the streets now

but you do see people cleaning shoes at stations and airports

and hotels will clean your shoes.

I've got hold of one of their machines

they use to clean shoes in a hotel. I thought I'd show you how it works.

I haven't had a full chance to read the instructions.

The instructions came in this box with a few other things

but I haven't had chance to read them.

Note that is a sealed box.

That'll become important to the trick later.

I need somebody whose shoes need cleaning. What is your name?

Miss Smith. Would you mind loaning me one of your shoes?

Miss Smith is the class's regular teacher.

She is in on the secret that John is a magician, but doesn't

-know what the trick is.

-That shoe looks quite clean already.

We'll see if we can polish it up and make it a little bit better.

Thanks.

When this shoe gets polished in a hotel, and all the other shoes

have been polished as well,

what do you think one of the problems might be?

Yes? They might get mixed up.

We might not know whose shoe belongs to who.

When you hand your shoes into the hotel,

you might put a little tag on like this one.

I'm going to ask Miss Smith if you can write your name

and maybe a random room number.

Write your name and any room number on there.

Miss Smith is tagging her shoes so we know it's hers

later in the trick. But what's going to happen?

That's your first name. Siobhan.

And you've decided you're in hotel room number seven.

And we will just put this tag on the shoe so we don't lose it.

I will tie it to the shoelace.

Now, the machine is very quick, easy-to-use.

All you do is put the shoe in the machine like this

and we need to add a little bit of the shoe-cleaning spray.

Wonderful.

And then we need to turn it on.

Because it's remote control I don't need to touch the machine.

I just need to press the buttons on the remote control which is two,

three and action and it will...

-Should start.

-Bear with him.

Is anything happening yet?

It's smoking!

All right, calm down.

That's the cleaning chemicals reacting. I think that's normal.

It's all right, there's an emergency...

I know it's smoking. Calm down.

I hope Miss Smith's shoe is OK in there.

Maybe that's works.

Maybe it's all clean...

Oh, dear.

They can't believe it.

The shoe is ruined.

No, no it's all right. Don't panic.

I think that might be meant to happen.

If that happens, you do get an extra thing.

You get a shoe cleaning cloth.

If I put the shoe in there like so.

That's it and if we just give the cloth a little

bit of a polish like this and what happens is...

-Where's it gone?!

-It's all right. I know what's gone wrong.

I should have read the instructions. If you hold on a second.

Remember, the instructions are in a sealed box.

The shoe magic is about to get shinier.

Let's have a look in here.

All right, everybody quiet. Let's have a look at the instructions.

I'm sure they will tell us what's gone wrong.

"Do not use the device unless you have read the instructions."

Yes, I knew that! Ah, here we go.

"If the shoe gets damaged during the cleaning process,

"please use the spare shoe enclosed with the instructions."

It must be this one.

Miss Smith, is that the name you wrote on the shoe?

-And is that the room number you chose?

-It is.

Wow! Isn't that fantastic?

I am not surprised the class are blown away

but it's time for John to own up.

Actually, boys and girls, I've got to be honest with you.

I've got to come clean. I am not really a teacher. I'm a magician.

And you've been set up by your teachers and parents and family

and you're going to be on a CBBC show called

Help, My Supply Teacher's Magic!

There's a camera there, camera here and as a camera over there.

John's shoe trick fitted the class right up.

I'm not sure I believe my eyes. Let's go over it one more time.

He got Miss Smith's shoe and put it into a box and smoke came out.

The shoe was burnt and ruined.

If it's all clean, let's just...

Oh, dear.

Suddenly, there wasn't a shoe any more.

Into the cleaning cloth.

John tried magic to fix the shoe.

What happens is... Ah...

He opened the box and read the instructions.

But the box contained more than instructions.

Is that the name you wrote on the shoe?

The shoe was on the box all unburnt.

An amazing trick and this class didn't realise!

It's very important you're wearing a good pair of socks with your shoes.

I like to wear ankle socks.

See you later, but until then,

if you're at school and think something magical is occurring,

maybe you'll find yourself shouting,

"Help! My Supply Teacher's Still Magic!

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