Episode 13 Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic

It's a brand-new term

and CBBC have 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.

CHILDREN SHOUT AND CHEER

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...

CHILDREN CHEER

Hello! It's me, Iain, we're back to school for a new term -

it's Help! My Supply Teacher Is STILL Magic. You could say it's...

-DEEP VOICE:

-Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic 2:

The Lord Of The Disappearing Rings.

-NORMAL VOICE:

-Once again, we swapped regular teachers with magicians

and, because you know them, we've disguised them.

We filmed the results with special cameras hidden in the classrooms.

Yeah! We're cleverer than a boomerang

with a round-the-world air ticket.

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

Watch as I carefully produce a coin from behind my ear.

Eh?! I always keep one spare. Here's the clips.

Katherine lightens up this lesson with a shadowy trick

and a surprise with zip.

Look, it's Fergus!

You'll need any 15 playing cards or trading cards

to play along with Fergus's interactive illusion.

Plus you've been sending in clips of all your best magic tricks.

And later on, I'll be picking my favourite.

The Wannabe Wizards are the business, but first...

Do you think you'd be able to tell if your teacher started doing magic?

Do you?

This is Katherine. She's a cunning conjurer who loves surprises.

She's dressed for the great outdoors,

but she's come in from the cold and the class are in for a treat.

-BELL RINGS

-Enter Year Four.

They don't know it yet,

but Katherine's about to give them a lesson about camping,

where the magic is "in tents"!

None of them have recognised Katherine in her wig and wellies,

or noticed the hidden cameras in their school hall.

When the magic begins, will the class fill their boots?

Now, I'm here from Millsy's Adventures.

Now, this is a scheme

that promotes fun, adventurous outdoor activities.

Little do they know, the activity Katherine's got planned is magic.

So, I've brought with me one of the tents that we use.

So I'm just going to turn it round, so it's the right way round,

facing you all. Now, this here is the smallest tent that we do.

It fits two people. I'm going to show you what it looks like inside.

That zip's a bit tricky, but no magic yet.

So if we open up the tent, you can all see inside.

-Now, it's pretty cosy, but does fit two people.

-And note, it's empty.

OK, so sometimes when you're camping, it is quite tight.

But we'll do that up again...

ZIP SQUEAKS

..like this. Now...

the most important thing when you're camping is to be prepared.

So can any of you have a think about what kind of things

you might want to take when camping? Any ideas? Yes?

-A torch?

-A torch? Brilliant! I've actually got a torch here.

Here we go. So we've got our torch. Very good. Yes?

Sleeping bag?

A sleeping bag? Brilliant, well done! Yes, a sleeping bag.

Now, a sleeping bag keeps you nice and warm.

So we'll put our sleeping bag down there.

I'll show you some other things you might want to take. A camping mat.

Not only can you use it while you're eating,

you can sit down and have a picnic on it, it's a great thing, you can

also put your sleeping bag on top of it, so it's more comfortable.

With her camping mat, Katherine's pulled the wool

over the class's eyes. They don't suspect a thing!

Now, one of my favourite things to do when camping

is to sit round the fire telling stories and playing games.

Now, one of my favourite games is a game called shadows.

You make shadows on the tent with your hands

and everyone guesses what shape you're trying to make.

And I thought it'd be great fun if we had a go at playing that now.

Year Four are still in the dark,

but will Katherine's shadowy story make them suspect soon?

All I'm going to do is just

place this light into the tent, like that,

and we're going to use our torch

to light my hands up while making the shadows.

So we can all see the torch shining the light there.

So are you ready to play the game, everyone?

-ALL:

-Yeah!

-Yeah? Brilliant, OK!

So my first shadow shape is this.

Let's see if you can guess what it is.

You can shout out.

-Bird!

-Butterfly!

-A bird!

-Good shadow of a bird. Standard stuff.

OK, so let's try another one, OK? So what do you think this one is?

What do you think it is? You can shout out.

-Rabbit!

-It's a rabbit! Well done!

That rabbit's good!

OK, now, this one is definitely a lot trickier.

See if you can get this one. Are you ready?

Let's have a go.

-A tree!

-It's a tree!

Her hands can't be making that, surely? She's having a giraffe!

I mean, a laugh.

Gosh, you're good at this game!

Now this next one I'm going to show you

is something I've been working on for a long, long time.

Let's see.

A house!

That's incredible! And impossible! And magic!

You can't do that with just your hands!

Brilliant! Well done, everyone!

They are literally open-mouthed.

If they were out camping, they'd be catching flies.

Now, we've spoken a lot about being prepared when camping,

which is obviously really, really important,

but there is something that's even more important than that.

I wonder if they're prepared for some even better magic?

It's really important that you have somebody with you when camping.

I always take a friend of mine with me when I'm camping.

He's very experienced.

He knows what he's doing,

and he can turn up anywhere.

I know he's always, always going to be there.

CHILDREN GASP

And here he is! Look, it's Fergus!

They weren't ready for that! The tent looked empty.

That's amazing, and it's time to uncover the truth.

We are magicians, and you're all

being filmed right now to be on Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic!

The class didn't see that one coming.

But when we canvassed opinion on the tent trick,

how did they describe it?

Wow! Shocking!

It was really amazing.

-Let's see...

-Katherine's magical shadows were illuminating.

I wasn't sure how she'd make a house doing that,

because the tree, it was like, it looked really realistic.

Let's have a go.

Up sprouted a shadowy tree and out sprung a beaming Fergus!

Look, it's Fergus!

I was like, how would he get in there without being seen?

I always have wanted to be on Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic

and it's quite amazing.

You are on it! It was amazing!

And the class had no idea Katherine was a magician!

How long would it take for you to shout...

Later on, you'll see what happened

when John went undercover at another school.

He's going to bamboozle them with some mathe-magic.

I think that's pretty clear how it's worked.

Now it's James, with a mind-blowing trick, Up Close And Magical.

So in time-honoured tradition,

I'd like you to pick a card, any card.

You sure? Not that one, please not that one.

OK, you can pick that one, I don't mind. So can you see it?

OK, what I'd like to do, Daniel,

is write your name nice and big on the face of the card,

and make sure the cameras can see you.

I'm going to turn around so I don't cheat.

-Remember, Daniel's written his name on the six of spades.

-Done it.

Done it? I'll just get that cap back.

So we can pop that cap back on there.

Pop that in the pocket. Now, we're going to lose your card in the deck,

so I take your card, put it about halfway down.

-James doesn't know what the card is.

-This is where the magic happens.

-Are you ready? Are you ready?

-Yes.

-Am I ready? I think I'm ready.

-Obviously you're ready!

-I'm ready, OK. Watch.

If I snap, one card comes to the top of the deck,

the Joker. Was that your card?

-No.

-No.

-The Joker was your card.

-No.

Fine. OK, have it your way, that's fine.

-Don't worry, nobody noticed. Move on.

-We'll try something else.

If I take these, OK,

Ebony, can you hold onto these? These are some balloons.

Daniel, take any balloon you want.

That's it, the magic's not working, try balloon modelling.

So we have a balloon and a deck of cards,

so balloon, deck of cards, balloon, deck of cards.

Watch, on three. One, two, three...

Deck of cards goes inside the balloon.

-Look, it's actually in there.

-No way! The deck's inside the balloon!

But that's only half the trick. In fact, we don't need those any more.

We can get rid of the rest of the balloons! That's only half the trick.

The other half - I've still got to find your card,

which is more difficult now because they're in a balloon! Watch.

I'll just give them a little shuffle. I think I can see it.

-What's he doing?

-I'm going to reach in, pull one card out...

..of the balloon, which is your signed six of spades,

and there is a deck of cards in a balloon.

Eh? That's just balloony.

Give it a shake.

OK, try and get another one out. No, it doesn't work.

-Got a pin?

-No!

Only trained magicians can do it! Nice one, dude!

Look, he just had a balloon in his hand and he had the cards,

and put it on top. Bam! It's in!

No, you don't do that!

-It's not normal to do that!

-Then he pulled the card out.

And there's the card.

He takes a card out of the balloon -

serious! That don't happen in real life!

It's like, if I tried, if I tried it right now,

it ain't going to happen! It's like, it ain't going to happen!

It's time for Katherine 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's got a piece of paper,

a pen and also a mirror.

She's going to show you how to write a word on a piece of paper

that looks exactly the same when it's put in front of a mirror.

Give it a go, Katherine.

It can't be done, can it?

Can you work out how to do it?

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

It's going to be incredible.

Right now, we have something amazing for you.

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, don't be shy.

I think Fergus is wearing his new aftershave,

even though it looks like he hasn't had a shave. Weird.

Remember, you'll need just 15 cards, so get them ready.

We're going to do a card trick, but we'll use your cards.

You can use playing cards or trading cards. It doesn't really matter.

As long as all the cards are different, the trick will work.

We won't need the whole deck.

We only need 15 cards,

so take them out now and then leave the rest to one side.

Take those 15 cards in a packet and hold them face up.

I want you to deal the cards into three face-up piles,

just like this.

You want to carry on going until all the cards in your hand are gone.

That will leave you with three equal packets.

Now I want you to pick up any one of those packets.

I'm going to choose this one,

but you can choose any one you like.

And then, spread those cards so you can see all of them.

What I want you to do now is to remember a card,

so commit it to memory and don't forget it.

I'm going to remember the four of diamonds,

but I'm sure yours is different.

Without changing the order of the cards, push them back together

and place them on either one of the packets on the table.

I'm going to place mine there

and then pick up the other packet

and place that on the two. Fantastic job.

Now, there is no way I could know which card you are thinking of,

but to make this even more difficult,

I want you to pick up that packet

and deal it out into three piles just like before.

Do that with me now.

And again, you'll carry on going

until all the cards in your hand are gone.

Fantastic. Look through the cards on the table

and pick up the pile that contains your card,

so my one's here.

Find yours now, and once you've got that pile,

drop it on one of the two other packets.

Pick up the final packet,

and place that on top of everything.

Now, you need to make a very important choice.

You can hold the packet face up like you have been,

or you can turn it face down, like this.

The choice is yours, but do that for me now.

OK. Don't move the cards.

I'm going to make a prediction.

My prediction is the number eight.

Slowly deal the cards down onto the table,

and the eighth card will be yours.

One, two,

three, four, five, six, seven...

..eight. Did you get yours?

Did it work for you?

Wow. Well, the quantity of the magic is exhausting

and the quality has been electrifying. In fact,

I'm basically a ball of static,

so I feel like I've earned a sit-down.

Oh! Before that, let's have a look at what's coming up.

It's all kinds of ridiculousness.

James gets up close and magical with mind-reading cubed.

Katherine reveals a 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 their supply teacher is still magic?

Ooh! 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 some fortune cookies,

and I've got my computer to watch all the magic on. Amazing.

"Amazing magic you will see"?

Who wrote that, Yoda? Hit it.

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 episode, I'll be choosing a favourite Wannabe Wizard

and showing them to you guys.

My Wannabe Wizard this time is William from Bristol,

and he's got a card trick with an extremely tricky card.

I'm going to show you a card trick.

So, just pick a card,

any card that you'd like.

It's the three of diamonds. Thanks, random hand!

Three of diamonds, what a surprise.

Well, not really. This card is a bit of a pest, to be honest.

It always wants to get picked and it always does get picked.

Very annoying. I'll show you how much of a pest it really is.

If I get the three of diamonds

and then just push it in like that,

it always jumps out at me.

See, like that, saying, "Pick me, pick me!" The three of diamonds.

That card sure is pesky!

Even though I try to be crafty with it,

and I put it in the middle

and I try and randomly catch a different card out of the middle,

it still doesn't work.

Such a pest, that card!

Let's get a rewind!

Whoa! He just can't shake that card

and we can't forget William, our Wannabe Wizard.

Now it's time for Katherine to reveal the secret

in Tricks Of The Trade.

Katherine will show you how to write a word on a piece of paper

that looks exactly the same when it's put in front of a mirror.

Come on, have you worked it out? How many of you got it?

Did you use a different alphabet?

Nah!

Is it a trick mirror?

Don't be silly!

The trick is that only nine magical letters will work. They are...

When you put these letters in front of a mirror,

facing away from the mirror, they look the same. See?

As long as your words have these magical letters in them,

the trick will work. Here's some of Katherine's favourite magical words.

Dice, good one.

Hide, that's another nice one there.

And now you've cracked the code,

you've got something to show off with in the playground.

Next, to my mind, the best mind-reader.

It's James, Up Close And Magical.

I'd love to show you this amazing trick with my keyring, OK?

But before I do that, Libby,

if you could hold onto that wallet for me?

-That'll be important in a bit.

-Remember the wallet.

I've got this keyring.

It's like a miniature Rubik's Cube,

and you can see there's lots of colours. There's green, red, yellow.

Charlie, what I'd like you to do is pick one of these colours,

put it on your hand, so it's facing upwards,

and then put your other hand on top so nobody can see what colour it is.

And I'm going to turn my back while you do that.

Choose carefully, Charlie.

James is going to try and read your mind.

-Done?

-Yeah.

OK, I'm going to try and guess which colour you've gone for, OK? So...

I think you're going to make this easy. I think you've gone for red.

You're done red? Wow!

But maybe you just think that was a lucky guess,

because there's only six colours.

This time, what I want you to do is move the cube around in your hand,

so even you don't know what colour it is, OK?

And I'm going to turn my back.

-Done that?

-Yeah.

OK, let's see. Do you know what the colour is?

This is tough, this is tough.

Yeah, I think this time it's green.

It is green! Amazing!

Two out of three! OK, so maybe that was just a lucky guess,

but what if I could predict the next colour you were going to pick?

-That would be amazing, wouldn't it?

-Yeah.

OK, think of any colour on that cube you want, it doesn't matter if I see,

and just turn it to whichever colour you want.

Yellow? You sure?

Want to change your mind? Give you two seconds.

He's going to change his mind! Ooh, tricky!

-Orange. Are you sure you want to stick with orange?

-Yeah.

You were quite dead set on yellow there,

but now you've gone for orange.

-OK, Libby, I gave you a wallet right at the beginning.

-You did.

Can I just take that? Now, this is interesting

because inside my wallet, there is one business card,

with "Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic" on the back.

On the front is the name of a colour...

..which I wrote down earlier.

You could have had any colour, and you went for orange.

And the card says, "Orange"!

He predicted orange!

Even though Charlie changed his mind. That's incredible!

I changed it to orange.

Are you sure you want to stick with orange?

Then on the back of the business card, it said "orange".

The card says, "orange".

Unbelievable.

Well, that's inspired me to do some mind reading of my own.

Pick a number between one and three.

Your number is...

four.

Hmm. Needs a bit of practice, that.

It's the irrepressible illusionist John.

Guess what. He's about to go undercover.

The disguise is on. Come on, mate.

It's no time for slip-ups.

Enter Year 4. They don't know it yet,

but John's about to melt their minds with some magical maths.

So far, none of them

has spotted the cameras hidden in the classroom or recognised

John, but he's about to do a number on them with this mysterious puzzle.

Good morning, boys and girls.

We're going to look at number and the relationships of numbers.

Most numbers can be represented by other numbers.

For example, the number 12 can be represented by three and four.

3 x 4 = 12.

We're going to look at a way of representing those numbers

using a number relationship grid.

A number relationship grid is also known as a magic square

and you'll soon see why.

-I need someone to give me a two-digit number. Yes, Sarah.

-56.

56, wonderful. We have the number 56.

That's going to be the number we're going to represent.

That is our target number.

Remember number 56.

Everything's going to come back to that, and it was randomly chosen.

We need to fill in our relationship grid that represents that number so

56, the first number in this corner will be 11 because 45 from 56 is 11.

You don't always take 45 away from the number.

Depending on what the number is that you start with.

Once you've got the 11,

this number here is always two more than the opposite corner number

-unless that isn't 11. Then, it would be three more.

-Eh?!

Once you've got these two numbers, you can put in a key number.

The key number is 23. Which is 10 more than 13.

Once you've got these three, that's the key numbers to the grid.

You would put a six here which is half of 12,

which is one less than 11.

And put in 26 here.

-Which is three more than 23 which, of course, is half of six.

-What?!

The class is confused. I'm confused.

You put a 16 over here which is of course 10 less than 26.

Once you've put the 16 in, you can put seven over here and

10 here which of course is a natural progression from 13, 11 down to 10.

You always put 12 below 23 because it's almost half of 23,

but not quite.

Once you've got that, you can start working on your bottom line.

This number is there is always 15. You've got 11, 12, 13.

There's no 4, 15.

We never bother about 4, 15. We've all gone home.

We're eating tea by that time.

He's just telling jokes now. Those numbers are going in randomly.

You would get 25 over here.

Which is two more than 23

and it moves across in a position like a knight would move in chess.

Once you've got a 25 over here, you can put the five down here and, in

the bottom corner, you would have one more than this,

which of course is 24.

I think it's becoming much clearer to you now how it works.

You would then put in your bottom number.

-Your bottom number's always an 8.

-Yeah. Always an 8.

This number is 14. Then you put your last number which is 9.

Which is one more than 8, but quite a lot less than 15.

Hoo-ee! If that's real maths, count me out,

but the magic's coming and John is going to make sense of it all.

Obviously, you have to test the theory

and the way to test the theory is like this.

You've got to add them up in rows to see if they add up to 56.

For example, 11 + 16 + 5 + 24 = 56.

We know the grid is working.

6 + 23 + 12 + 15 = 56

26 + 7 + 14 + 9 = 56

13 + 10 + 25 + 8 = 56

I don't have to tell you that. You're ahead of me.

-All the columns add up to 56. Amazing.

-Then we can go horizontal.

13 + 26 + 6 + 11 = 56

10 + 7 + 23 + 16 = 56

25 + 14+ + 12 + 5 + 56

8 + 9 + 15 + 24 = 56

Whoa! All the rows add up to 56 too!

The how did he do that? It all seems so random.

To check there is a correct number relationship grid,

you must add them up diagonally.

8 + 14 + 23 + 11 = 56

13 + 7 + 12 + 24 = 56

Really, if you wanted to check the whole system,

you've got to do the corner numbers.

13 in this corner and 11 in this corner which equals 24.

+ 24 + 8 = 56

No matter which way he does it, the numbers always add up to 56.

That's magic.

What I'd like you to do, on your sheets of paper,

you've got a grid, in groups of two or three,

I'd like you to fill in that grid so it all adds up to 95.

Could you do that now? I'll give you two minutes.

-Two minutes, thank you very much.

-Look at their faces.

They can't possibly do it.

John is going to have to let them

in on a secret soon before they get headaches.

Can you put your papers down for a moment? Put your papers down.

I'm very impressed that you are all having a go.

You might find it quite difficult because I'm not really a teacher.

I'm actually a magician.

You've been set up by your teachers and your parents

and there's a camera at the back and there's a camera over here.

There's even a camera right over here.

You're all going to be on CBBC's Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic.

CHILDREN: Oh!

John's magical grid left the class perplexed. Were they impressed?

When he was speaking, I didn't get what he was saying

because he was talking very fast.

The numbers just made me a bit dizzy because it was so fast.

It was hard to keep up, but John's logic didn't seem to add up.

When he started adding those numbers so fast,

-I didn't know what was going on.

-I was just amazed.

From out of the maths mire, John's magic turned every answer to 56.

-The number the class had chosen.

-..Plus the 8 in the corner is 56.

An incredible trick, and this class didn't realise.

That, my friends, was called the magic square,

a trick that many magicians from the Magic Circle can do.

I'm starting my own magic group, and it's a magic triangle.

Why is it magic?

CLANG!

Bet you never heard a triangle do that before.

See you later, but, until then,

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

maybe you'll find yourself shouting

Help! My Supply Teacher Is Still Magic.

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