Episode 3 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.

It was flying around, like a magic saucer.

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. We're back to school and it's a new term.

It's Help! My Supply Teacher Is Still Magic.

You could say it's

"Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic 2: Deeper Undercover."

Once again, we've 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 classrooms.

Yeah, we're trickier than a million and one trick ponies

learning their second trick.

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

HARMONICA PLAYS

They're playing cards!

Play the clips.

Fergus is undercover in this class of year fours.

The lesson is enlightening, but how is he doing this electrickery?

John spends time getting up close and magical.

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

and later on I'll be picking my favourite.

Yes, the wannabe wizards are back, and they're way more wizardy.

But first...

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

Do you?

This is Katherine. She can bend spoons.

She can bend minds, too.

The disguise is on, but what time is it? It's magic time.

Entering year five, they don't know it yet, but Katherine's about to

give them a lesson that defies the laws of physics.

They haven't recognised her or spotted the cameras

hidden in their school hall,

but soon there'll be no hiding their excitement.

Now, today, we're doing a science lesson and we're going

to be learning all about different forms of matter.

Now, scientists have invented a very, very cool spray,

which is very new and it changes one form of matter into another.

And this atom spray actually changes solid matter

into a softer type of matter, so it's a bit like a liquid.

Magic fib alert!

Atom spray is not real, it's made up!

Because it is so new, it actually only works...

..on very thin and smooth solid objects, like glass.

So I've got this pane of glass that we're going to try this out on.

Now, just to make sure that it stays in place,

we've got this frame to keep it sturdy.

There we go.

And what I'm going to attempt to do is to push this giant needle

with the ribbon all the way through.

Now, that seems pretty impossible, doesn't it?

-ALL:

-Yeah.

It does sound impossible, because this is a trick.

Let's see if we can get this to work.

So, the first thing we have to do is to spray....

..with the atom spray,

and rub it into the glass, like that, so it's all nicely covered.

Now, it does take some time for the spray to work,

but before we try and push the needle in,

I'm just going to place this safety panel on the front,

just in case the glass shatters and we don't want it to go everywhere.

It's safety first when it comes to magic.

OK, so let's see if we can get this to work.

TAPPING ON GLASS

OK, so at the moment you can hear it's still solid, can't you?

But, actually, I can feel it getting softer.

Oooh.

THEY GASP

Oh, look at that!

Wow!

The ribbon passes all the way through.

Let's try it again and see if we can get it to work.

So, it's still solid and, oh...

Wow!

-CLASS:

-Wow!

Totally amazing trick!

And the class still don't suspect a thing!

Now, let's try the other side, as well.

So, again we're just going to put the safety panel up,

just to make sure that nobody gets hurt.

OK, let's try it again.

Now, if you listen really carefully,

you might be able to hear the density changing.

TAPPING

-Can you hear that?

-CLASS:

-Yeah.

Do you hear that? And look, it's gone all the way through.

-CLASS:

-Woah!

Until I put the last one through there, let's have a go.

Yep, and again it's going all the way through the glass.

Now, this formula only works for a short space of time.

So, before the ribbons get stuck inside the glass,

what I'm going to do is take it out...

..and so, the ribbon, I can see it melting through the glass now.

It can't really melt through glass, it's all part of the amazing trick.

And the glass remains in one piece.

Isn't it? Thank you.

They love it, and they don't even know it's magic yet!

And it's about to get better.

Now, I thought today I would try and do something

more impressive for you.

So, I brought with me today...

..this.

Which is a huge mirror. Now...

They love it, cos they can see the real stars of the show in it!

What I'm going to attempt to do today is

I'm going to attempt to walk through the mirror.

Now, the reason I think this is going to work

is because this mirror, like the glass,

is very smooth and it's very thin, so the atom spray should still work.

Remember, atom spray is not real,

so don't even try walking through mirrors - it would hurt.

Now, Miss Brown, if you wouldn't mind,

what I'd like you to do

is to hold on to this safety blanket for me,

and when I ask you to, what I want you to do is just pass it to me

and then roll it to the floor, so the mirror is completely covered.

Miss Brown is posing as a teaching assistant,

but, really, she's a magician's assistant.

First thing we need to do is just spray the cloth

and make sure the mirror is all covered in the atom spray,

like this.

Now, just as the glass, it does take some time to work,

so you're going to have to be really patient with me.

First of all,

I'm going to place my hands through the holes,

so I'm just putting my right arm in, like this, and my left hand.

So, can everyone see my hands?

-CLASS:

-Yeah.

-Yeah? Can everyone see my feet tapping?

-CLASS:

-Yeah.

Brilliant, OK. Miss Brown, if you could pass me the blanket,

that'll be perfect, and then roll it all the way down to the floor,

so the mirror is completely covered.

Brilliant, thank you.

Now, as I said, the mirror does stay hard for some time,

it takes a little while for it to get soft,

but I feel like it's getting a little bit softer,

so I'm going try and attempt to pass all the way through it.

This I have to see.

I know it's magic, but it's still sounds impressive!

OK, on the count of three.

One, two, three.

THEY GASP

What?! Katherine walked through the mirror!

She's about to tell them the truth, but they haven't seen it coming.

Do you want to hear a secret?

-CLASS:

-Yeah.

OK, that actually wasn't science.

What happened is you've all been set up by your teachers and your parents

and there's a hidden camera over there,

and there's a hidden camera over there,

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

EXCITED SHOUTING

Katherine's atomic spray trick was powerful stuff,

but how did it move the class?

She put the atom spray on

and then she put the needle through the glass.

They loved the needle trick, but the magic got even sharper.

The greatest trick was when she got through that mirror.

..three.

She walked through the mirror, and she came out the other side.

An incredible trick,

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 Fergus went undercover at another school.

He's doing a trick with a balloon, but will the class get carried away?

..right back down into my hand.

Right now, though, John is at a car museum

and he's about to get up close and magical.

We're going to do a little card trick

and I need somebody to help me.

Would you mind helping me with this one, Ross?

Wonderful. Would you just pick a card for me, just take any card.

Just dive in and have a card, any one at all.

Wonderful. What I'd like you to do for me, if you would, please,

is to sign your name across the card.

Nice and big, big, bold letters, Ross. Excellent.

Now, Ross, be perfectly honest, is that card unique?

Yes.

There's no other card in the world like that one.

We're going to try something unique, with your unique card.

I'm going to take your card

and place it in the middle of the deck about here...

Remember, Ross has marked that card that's going in the deck.

Would you mind holding the cards, Matthew?

Just put them on your hand, then put the other hand on top.

Wonderful. In a moment I'll ask you to shuffle those cards for me,

and when you've shuffled the cards, I have got a prediction

in my wallet, and the prediction in my wallet

says exactly where your card will be in that deck.

So, give them a little shuffle for me.

That's enough, I'm happy, are you happy?

-Mm-hmm.

-Wonderful, shall we have a look at the prediction?

Inside my wallet there's a little zip, a zippered compartment,

a secret little place where I keep my prediction,

and inside there is my prediction.

And my prediction says...

it's in here.

Would that be amazing?

The card that you picked and that you signed

is no longer in the deck, but it's in here,

-would that be good?

-I need proof.

You need proof! We all need proof! That's what we survive on!

We survive on proof, Ross!

-Take the envelope. What was your card?

-Jack of hearts.

Jack of hearts. Tear it open.

-I'm excited, are you excited?

-Yeah.

Is that your signature?

-Yeah.

-Cool!

I need to check the deck.

Check the deck, yeah, cos you might have signed two(!) Urgh!

He's checking the deck, he's checking the deck,

check the deck,

see if there's another one like this with the same signature.

Wow, he's not easily impressed, this Ross. Has John met his match?

-Was that good?

-Yeah.

Yes, he likes it. Phew!

Get me a coffee!

Don't know about coffee - John needs a lie down!

Ross wrote his signature on the Jack of hearts

and it disappeared from the pack and appeared in his wallet instead.

-Is that your signature?

-Yeah.

It was really, really awesome.

Really, really epic.

Now James 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.

James has four beakers of water, a tray,

four rolled-up playing cards and four hard boiled eggs.

That's hard boiled eggs, not raw.

Remind you of anyone?

With the table set up like this...

James will show you how to get one egg in each beaker,

while only touching one object and without breaking any of the eggs.

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, get up and come right next to the television,

you need to be close enough to touch the screen if you want to join in.

But don't worry, John's brushed his teeth.

I say brushed - he left them in water overnight.

Here he is.

Now, we're going to do a trick using 12 major cities.

They are...

You're going to put your finger here

and move around the pictures, like this.

First of all, I want you to think of a secret number

between five and 15.

That's any number between five and 15.

Now, starting here,

you're going to move your finger around the pictures the same amount

of times as your secret number.

So, if your secret number was six, you'd move six times, like this.

One, two, three,

four, five, six.

Remember, starting here,

move your finger the same amount of times equal to your secret number

and when you've reached that number, stop.

Do that now.

One, two, three...

Perfect, stay right where you are.

Now, move in the other direction, the same number you just moved.

That's moving this way the same amount equal to your secret number.

You ready?

OK, one, two...

Now, leave your finger at your new place.

Now, I know you're not thinking of Oslo, Berlin, Tokyo or New York,

so I'll remove those.

Now, you can move four times, either this way or this way.

That's four times.

You ready?

One, two, three, four.

Keep your finger there.

Now, I know you're not thinking of Athens, Dublin or London.

Keep your finger touching the screen

and concentrate on the city you're touching.

I think you've chosen Paris.

Bonjour, mes enfants! Au revoir!

That's French.

Did it work for you?

Wow! Well, the quantity of magic is exhausting

and the quality has been eye-popping.

In fact, it's made my eyes ache, so I think I've earned a sit down.

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

It's all kinds of ridiculousness.

Katherine gets up close and magical to award this badge.

Isn't that cool?

James will reveal his secret in Tricks Of The Trade.

Have you worked it out yet?

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

Will he fool the class,

or will they realise their supply teacher is still magic?

You've done it!

Oooh!

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 computer to watch the magic on...

Oh, I nearly I forgot my 2D glasses.

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'll be choosing a favourite Wannabe Wizard

and showing them to you guys.

My Wannabe Wizard this time is Leo from East Yorkshire,

and he's going to use his hoodie to hoodwink you.

Hi, my name's Leo, this is my one coin routine.

I need one coin, you see, just keep it there, you go....

Like that, you see? You get the first coin.

This is the idea though,

9if you just take it, give it a little rub, you see it vanishes,

but I can just get it back again.

The idea of coin magic, you've just got to watch really carefully,

so keep your eye on it, you ready?

Whoa, wait a second!

The coin jumped into his other hand!

OK, he'll go again.

This is it coming back again.

This time, just make you watch really carefully, just watch, ready?

All you do is give it a little rub, you see it vanishes.

You see, it completely goes.

Right. Shall we see?

It's just there.

So watch really carefully, see that time, it just goes up there.

That's so quick! We can see it again in slo-mo.

There's the coin in his left hand,

now it's disappeared!

It's not in that hand, or that hand.

Where is it?!

Oh, there it is, in his hoodie.

One coin going up...

You see that time it just goes up there.

But watch what we'll do, we'll do it a bit differently this time,

we'll take it, touch it to there and it jumps over to there.

Take it here, all you have to do, give it a blow, snap it into two.

Rub it...

and that vanishes.

Whoa! Let's get a rewind on that bit!

We'll do it a bit differently this time, we'll take it,

touch it to there and it jumps over to there.

Take it here, all you have to do, give it a blow, snap it into two.

Small change, big trick.

That's why Leo is my Wannabe Wizard this time.

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

James will show you how to get one of the hard boiled eggs

into each beaker while only touching one object,

and without breaking any of the eggs.

Come on, have you worked it out?

Do you use a complicated pulley system?

Nah, not even close.

Here's how you do it.

Hit the side of the tray in one clean sweep

and the eggs will fall into the beakers.

Go on, James, do it.

Check this out.

Cracking!

Or not.

Did you get it? Are you amazing already?

Nice one, James.

Eh, come back, mate!

Now Katherine's at a theme park, getting up close and magical.

-Hi, guys.

-Hello.

Hello. As you know, we're here filming

Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic,

and we've had these new badges made for the new series.

They're really, really cool, they've got the logo on,

but what's really cool about them is that they're actually magic.

And I was wondering, is it OK, Gary, if I pin this badge on you?

-Indeed.

-Is that OK?

-It is.

I'm going to pin it right in the centre there, if that's OK.

-Are you fine with that?

-Yep, I'm happy with that.

-Cool.

There we go, and if you could just...

Careful while you do it, but just tuck in your t-shirt,

into your trousers.

I can do that.

That would be perfect. Brilliant, and now I'm just going to

literally fold up the badge, like that, into your t-shirt,

so it's completely wrapped up, and then all I want you to do

is just push with your hand on the badge and just begin to rub

and you could begin to feel something strange happening.

Keep on rubbing.

I see what he's doing there, but can he pat his head at the same time?

And it should begin to feel as if something's happening.

Loosen up a little bit.

Something magic's happening.

Let go, let's see if it's worked.

Look, it looks as though the badge has disappeared, can you see that?

It looks as though it's completely gone.

But what's happened is the badge has actually melted

all the way through your t-shirt.

So if you un-tuck your t-shirt,

be very careful cos the badge is going to fall out.

Look at that, isn't that cool?

-How did that happen?

-Erm...

Wow.

How does that work?

No idea.

Magic.

I think that trick was amazing.

Katherine pinned it to my uncle's shirt, then my uncle had to rub it,

and then it sort of just sunk through the shirt.

It's amazing.

Katherine asked me to help with that trick.

But I misheard her and got hold of these.

Well, she did say, "Get some badges made up."

What can I do with these? I've got 3,000 in the van.

-BADGERS SQUEAK

-Oh, sorry.

OK, it's time for more school magic,

and now it's Fergus pretending to be a supply teacher

and trying to fool another class.

The disguise is on, the hidden cameras are set.

Enter year four. They don't know it yet, but Fergus is about to do

some magic involving static electricity that's shockingly good.

None of them have noticed the hidden cameras

or recognised Fergus with his trendy glasses on.

But will the class be able to keep their cool when the magic begins?

Right, class, today we're going to be talking about static electricity.

So, who knows what static electricity is?

Static electricity refers to an electrical charge

in or around the surface of an object.

So, for example, if I take this balloon and I rub it on my top,

that creates something called friction.

Now, friction creates heat, heat creates energy

and energy transfers to something called static electricity.

All science, no fiction so far.

They still think he's a teacher, so his mission's on course.

So, some of you may have done this before.

If I take the balloon now and it's now charged with static,

I can place it against the wall and it will...

stick.

That's cool, but it's not magic yet.

Today, I've bought with me something called static cloth.

That's not static cloth, it's just a piece of carpet,

and Fergus is about to pull the wool over this class's eyes.

Now, static cloth holds a greater static charge than any other material

you guys will have come across before and it's very hard to get hold of.

But, it's remarkable, and I'm going to show you some remarkable things

with this today. Do you want to see?

-CLASS:

-Yes.

Yes! Right, on the ceiling, there is a helium balloon.

Now, who's had a helium balloon before?

-Have you ever let it go? CLASS:

-Yeah.

-And what happens?

-It just flies off.

It flies off and it's really annoying, especially, you know,

if you've spent money on it at the fair, you want to get it back.

Now, what you need to do is get yourself some static cloth.

Remember static cloth is not real, it's all part of the trick.

Watch what happens if I start to rub my static cloth.

It builds up that same friction and that same static

that I was talking about earlier.

So, now, if I hold my hand up towards the balloon,

this is remarkable, watch.

Look, it comes all the way, right back down into my hand.

That was gravity defying magic, but there's more coming up.

Wouldn't it be great

if we could transfer that static charge into powering an object?

So, not just to move an object or to bring an object towards you,

but actually to power an object. That would be amazing, wouldn't it?

-CLASS:

-Yeah.

Now, static charge is quite weak,

so it can only power small objects for a small amount of time.

-Will you guys help me on this one? CLASS:

-Yeah.

Yeah? Fantastic. So, I've got a piece of static cloth.

Now, there's quite a lot of you here,

so if you share between three of you, so if you share between threes.

One, two. One piece of static for you, one piece of static for you.

Fergus makes a convincing teacher.

The class still believe this is a real lesson.

And that'll do nicely, perfect. OK, what I'd like you to do

is place one hand on your static cloth and one hand towards me,

so facing up towards me.

Now, in a moment, I'm going to get you to start rubbing

that static cloth and generate your own static charge.

That's going to travel through your body

and you're going to send that static charge towards me.

They're not, but they think they are.

I'm so excited my hair's standing on end!

So, in this bag, I have got a lightbulb.

Now, I said it must be a small object,

so we're going to try together to power this object.

With enough of you doing it and enough of you doing it properly,

this should work. Wouldn't that be amazing?

-CLASS:

-Yeah.

It would be amazing. That's because it would be magic.

So, with one hand facing towards me,

everyone start rubbing your static cloth now, off you go.

Go, go, go! Keep pushing that static towards me!

Come on, come on.

Keep going, keep going, keep going!

Oh! You've done it!

The class think they've made the lightbulb light up

by rubbing the static cloth, but it's magic!

Guys, well done. Stop there. Excellent, give yourselves a clap!

You managed to generate enough static charge to actually send it

to light a lightbulb!

That is incredible.

It is incredible. And now it's time to let them all in on the secret.

Now, there is such thing as static charge,

and you all know there's such thing as electricity, right?

But not to the degrees that I've shown you today,

not to the degrees you've witnessed today,

and there is a very, very simple reason for that.

It's cos I'm not really a teacher.

I'm actually a magician...

..and all of you in this classroom

have been set up by your teachers here, by your headmaster,

and right now there is a camera in that box there,

there's a camera in that box there, there's a camera in that corner,

and you're all being filmed for a CBBC show called

Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic!

THEY SCREAM

Fergus's static trick has electrified the class.

They're buzzing with excitement.

-You could even say they're

-ecstatic.

But what did they say?

I was thinking, like, "Whoa, how is that happening?"

He put his hand near the balloon and it came down.

The balloon came down, but the magic went up a gear.

The light just went on blue.

Keep going! Oh! You've done it!

It was like magic, I never thought it could really happen.

An amazing trick and this class didn't realise.

I tried that trick at home.

I took a piece from under the rug so mum won't notice.

Don't try that at your home.

Maybe your grandma's.

See you later, guys, but until then,

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

maybe you'll find yourself shouting,

"Help! My Supply Teacher's Still Magic!"

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