Episode 4 Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic

It's a 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 looks... 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 for another term as

Help! My Supply Teacher Is Still Magic.

You could say it's...

(DEEP VOICE) Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic II: Magicians Assemble.

Once again, we've swapped regular teachers with magicians

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

We've filmed the results with special cameras

hidden in the classrooms.

Yeah. We're trickier than Dynamo riding a trick unicycle

at a magic convention.

We're also showing you loads of other great tricks,

tricks like this.

Please notice that this is a regular pack of cards.

Oh! I brought the wrong pack of cards.

Just watch the clips!

The smaller Fergus' shrinking trick becomes,

the bigger the reaction it gets.

For John's interactive illusion, you'll need a 5p, a 1p,

a 50p and a 2p.

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 back and this time they mean business.

But first...

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

Do you?

This is Fergus.

If he plays his cards right he won't be recognised.

The disguise is on.

He's walking with purpose to his unsuspecting class.

Enter, Year Five. They don't know it,

but Fergus will give them a lesson about shrinking people

that's going to expand their minds.

So far none of the class have recognised Fergus in disguise,

or noticed the hidden cameras in their school hall,

but will they be able to believe their eyes?

-Good morning, class.

-Good morning, Mr Barkus.

Very good.

Now, I'm actually from a company called Air Squash,

and what we do is look at the space management

on different forms of transport. So rather than have, say,

100 people on a plane, we'll fit 1,000 people on a plane.

Sounds incredible, doesn't it?

Fergus is pretending to work for a company who've invented

a new way of travelling and the class are still with him!

What happens with Air Squash

is you arrive at your location for departure...

These diagrams are here to help convince the class

the lesson is real.

Then, you're placed into the contraption you'll see on your left.

You're diminished to a fifth of your capacity, you're boxed,

placed alongside other people, until you reach your destination

where you're elongated, where you're stretched back to your regular size.

Would you like to see how this works?

-ALL: Yes!

-Are you sure?

-Yes!

-Right, I have a colleague with me today, Miss Floyd,

who will be assisting...

Miss Floyd is actually a magician's assistant,

but the class don't suspect a thing.

Miss Floyd is going to step into our contraption.

Fantastic, and we will place this back here...and bring...

There.

Lovely. So, at the moment, you'll see Miss Floyd occupies

the entire space of the box, right?

What we want to do is to get Miss Floyd from her full size,

squashed right down, able to fit in something that size.

So far, Fergus has been telling the class tiny fibs.

He's now about to make Miss Floyd smaller with a massive trick.

We start with the top of her body - so head, chest, tummy, back

and we squash that down,

so we contract all of those muscles...

..until she's half of her original size,

so now we have half of Miss Floyd.

Half of Miss Floyd, yet we're about to double the magic.

What we need to do, this time, is work from the feet upwards,

so we need to contract the legs...

I can't believe my eyes!

I bet Miss Floyd can't believe her legs!

-Until...

-CHILDREN LAUGH

Miss Floyd...is...small.

At that point, we can remove this as a package

and we can put it into an aeroplane with lots of other people

until you reach your destination.

So where we had an ENTIRE Miss Floyd occupying the WHOLE box,

we now have space for one, two, three, four, five Miss Floyds.

Isn't that incredible?

Fergus can even get underneath her feet through the Air Squash gizmo.

Once you get to your destination,

you don't want to travel round like this all day,

you need to be stretched out, so we start...with the legs.

So we bring those legs down...

..until we have, just like we did last time,

half Miss Floyd, then we do the same but with the tummy,

with the chest, with the back

and we stretch those muscles right the way out,

until Miss Floyd returns to...

her regular size.

And then, of course, she can... she's now at her destination...

step out...

..and continue her holiday.

She deserves a holiday after all that!

The class are beginning to suspect that this lesson

isn't what it seems.

-Who would like to have one of them?

-CHILDREN: Me, me!

Course they would, but they've also got a few questions to ask you!

The trouble is, none of you will own one of them

and the truth behind that is... I'm actually a magician

and all of you have been set up by your parents at home,

by your teachers at school

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

Help! My Supply Teacher's Magic

and there's a camera filming you there,

and there's a camera there and you're going to be on TV!

CHILDREN LAUGH AND CHEER

No wonder they're excited, that was an unbelievable trick!

But how did they describe it?

I thought that trick was amazing

because no-one else could shrink that small and then she...

And then she come back to her normal size.

The best part is when she was, like, really shrinking, shrinking,

shrinking, shrinking and I thought it was kind of amazing.

All of those muscles...

Miss Floyd got smaller, but the trick got bigger!

Her legs just shrunk and her head just shrunk

and she looked like she was in a suitcase.

Fergus stretched the truth with his shrinking trick,

but the class had no idea he was a magician.

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

Later on you'll see what happened

when James went undercover in another school.

He does amazing magic that's far from the oldest trick in the book.

Right now, though, James is at a car museum

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

-Do you guys like music? ALL:

-Yeah.

I love music. Have you got an MP3 player at home you listen to?

-No.

-No? I have.

I've got an MP3 player that is fantastic. I'm not just saying this.

It's so vintage and retro, it's actually cool again.

-Do you want to see it?

-Yeah.

Here is my MP3 player. Boom!

That MP3 player looks more like a deck of cards to me.

-What do you think?

-Ooh, yeah.

I've got loads of songs loaded in there.

In fact, could you hold this?

Just be really careful, OK, that cost quite a bit of money.

Use both hands actually, just in case. Perfect, excellent.

Now, I've got loads of songs in here, we've got...

They're not songs, they're printed cards, surely?

-We've got Bruno Mars.

-Cool.

-Do you like Bruno Mars?

-Yeah.

Yeah, we like Bruno Mars. We've got...

-What have we got? Jessie J!

-Yeah.

-Yes! Jessie J, rocking it.

Now this model, this is an old model. This is a Shuffle...

This is a Shuffle model.

So at the moment it's loaded to play Bruno Mars.

So what I'd like you to do, Morgan,

is if I go through the songs like this,

you just say stop whenever you want.

-Stop!

-There? OK. If you can remember that song.

The song says, "What Makes You Beautiful - One Direction."

-Yeah.

-So we just put this back in with the other songs.

Careful, careful, careful. Vintage, antique.

So put those back in the player like this.

You remember that song? Don't forget it -

it'll be important shortly. At the moment,

you'll not be able to hear that song, do you know why?

-Why?

-Some people say to me,

"James, it's because that's not an MP3 player, it's a cardboard box."

And I say to them, "That's a lie."

The reason you can't hear that song at the moment

is because you need headphones.

How can you listen to a song without headphones or a speaker?

Luckily, I've got some headphones here in my pocket

and if we just connect those, just like this...

The headphone's magically attached!

-Do you remember the song?

-Yeah.

-Excellent. It was...?

-One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful.

One Direction. Press play.

Just listen...

SONG PLAYS

That is One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful

and it's coming from the deck of cards! Amazing!

-I've had enough of One Direction.

-That was awesome.

-Do you want to buy it?

-Yeah.

-20 quid.

He was shuffling the cards and he said stop to me, so I said stop.

He showed me the song...

One Direction - What Makes You Beautiful.

-You can remember that song?

-And then it suddenly came on.

-So that's connected.

-A piece of cardboard playing music?

It's awesome.

# That's what makes you beautiful. #

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's got a coin and a plastic cup.

Standing like this, Katherine will show you how to get the coin

into the cup without bending your arms.

Can you work out how to do it?

Not easy, eh?

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.

Have you got your 1p, a 2p, a 5p and a 50p?

Because this is the interactive illusion.

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

So come on, you'll need to pay close attention.

So get over here, nice and close, if you want to join in.

I mean, you and your telly go way back,

it's time for you now to come way forward.

Here's John.

You need to get those coins ready now.

So, you've got your coins.

Arrange them so that you have two piles.

One containing the big coins - that's the 50p and the 2p -

and one containing the little coins - that's the 1p and the 5p.

OK. Place a hand on either pile. It's completely up to you which one.

Now, spell the pile your hand is on, either big or little,

moving your hand from pile to pile, as you spell.

So if your hand was on the big coins, you would spell big,

and move your hand like this -

B-I-G.

Do that now.

OK. Whichever pile your hand landed on,

keep it there and with your other hand, push away the other pile.

Now, lift your hand and separate the two coins

so that they are next to each other, and place a hand on one of the coins.

Now spell the name of that coin -

Penny, five, two or fifty.

Move your hand from coin to coin just like before.

Do that now.

Good. Now, there is no way I could know which choices you made,

but I think your hand is on a silver coin.

It's a small coin...

It's on the 5p, isn't it?

I'm going out for Sunday lunch.

A small one.

Did it work for you?

Wow! Well, the quantity of the magic is exhausting

and the quality has been right up there,

so high I'm... feeling a little bit giddy.

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.

John gets up close and magical to put his card where his mouth is.

Katherine will reveal the secret in Tricks Of The Trade.

Have you worked it out yet?

And watch what happens when James 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 my tape measure

to make sure I'm safe viewing distance from the computer

and I've got aforementioned 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'll be choosing a favourite Wannabe Wizard

and showing them to you guys.

My Wannabe Wizard this time is Cai from Berkshire

with two tricks for the price of one!

Hi, I'm Cai or as most people know me as - Magic Eye.

I'm here today to show you some of my tricks.

-I have a volunteer, Serena.

-Hi.

Right, now, I've got a pack of cards here, and the box with the cards.

You have a look at that, make sure that's normal.

Whilst you're doing that I'll take the top card...

The eight of hearts. Show it to the camera and I'll show it to you.

Now I'll take the cards and I'll place them inside the box

so you can see them going in.

Now take the card and wave over the top for me.

And tap it on the box.

And the cards have gone. Stick your fingers in there.

Make sure they've definitely gone.

Incredible, but there's more!

So a glass, which we use every day to drink, and two coins.

-So we've got a 1p...

-Yeah.

..and we've got a pound, yeah? And we've got the glass.

Have a look at the glass, make sure it's real,

make sure there's no trap doors or anything

and I'll take the 1p and the pound and just place them like that.

They're both there.

Now, I'll take the glass and put it over the top of the coins.

So they're both still in there, yeah?

-Yeah.

-Now, I want you to choose a coin - the one pound or the penny?

-The one pound.

-The one pound, yeah. Right, now watch. Ready?

Whoa! Wow.

As you can see, the 1p has now completely vanished

and all I have here is your chosen one-pound coin.

-Wow, you're my Wannabe Wizard.

-Thank you, I'm Magic Eye.

Now it's time for Katherine to reveal the secret

in Tricks Of The Trade.

Katherine's been standing like this for a while now and before

her shoulders give out, she's going to show you how to get the coin

into the cup without bending your arms.

Maybe you think you have to throw the coin in the air?

Nah! Maybe you can slide it down your arms?

Don't be daft! The trick is simple.

Keeping your arms straight, place the cup on the table

and then turn your body and drop the coin in the cup.

Sneaky, but it works! Did you get it?

Are you amazing already?

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

Next, John is at a car museum getting up close and magical.

Hi, how are you?

-Fine.

-Excellent, just move a bit closer together.

Perfect, and apart. Great, I wanted some exercise.

A bit of exercise before the trick.

I'll do a card trick, but it's different

cos I'm going to break the rules of magic.

-One of the rules of magic is never tell people...

-Yeah.

-..what the trick is.

-Yeah.

If I tell you the trick, you'll know what's happening,

but I'll tell you.

I'm going to flick through the cards like this

with the cards behind me.

As I flick through, you say, "stop,"

any time you like, and when you say it,

think of the card we've stopped at

and then you take the cards off me, while my back's turned,

then I will turn round and make the card that you're thinking of

vanish from the deck that's in your hands.

-Would that be amazing?

-Yeah.

-It would, wouldn't it? So we know what's happening.

-Yeah.

Excellent, here we go.

-Stop!

-Matthew said stop and is checking out the card.

We don't know what it is yet.

Why has John got a card in his mouth? Isn't it peaceful?

Remember I said the card that you were thinking of

-would vanish from the deck?

-Yeah.

-What was the card?

-Four of hearts.

Have a look through the deck. Spread through, spread through them.

There's 52 of them, spread through...

He's checking carefully for the four of hearts.

It's vanished and it was the one in my mouth!

Honestly, you, your socks, you've...

Throw some on the floor.

Throw them all on the floor. Is your four of hearts there?

-No.

-Of course it's not. You know why?

I've blown your socks off, well, one of them.

-Watch! The four of hearts!

-Wow!

-Cool.

Cool.

Well done, John, that trick was tricky!

Really amazed.

'He turned his back and went through the pack of cards

'and told us to say stop whenever we felt like it.

'Then he got the four of hearts

'and then he turned round and he had the four of hearts in his mouth.'

-The four of hearts!

-Wow!

I think that trick was amazing.

Tough crowd, John. Magicians actually run in John's family.

Normally away from angry audiences. You're welcome.

Right now, another magical lesson that does my head in.

James is pretending to be a supply teacher

and trying to fool another class.

The disguise is on. The hidden cameras are set.

Enter, Year Five.

They think they're coming in for a lesson on literacy,

but James is about to show them you can never judge a book by its cover.

They don't even notice the hidden cameras or recognise James

in his Harry Potteresque glasses,

but will they realise it's magic

or that the cameras are JK ROLLING?

Hands up if you like reading? Excellent, most of you.

Now, I'm here to tell you today about something called

Rapid Recall Literacy.

Now that probably sounds quite complicated,

but what it means is you will be able to read

much, much, much quicker than you can already.

Read their faces, they don't suspect a thing!

So imagine you'll be able to read a book from cover to cover

in a few minutes and not only that, you'll be able to remember

everything that happened in the book and exactly where that happened.

That sound like a good skill to have?

-CHILDREN:

-Yes.

-Before I tell you how this works,

how about I give you a bit of a demonstration of what it looks like?

-Shall we try something?

-Yes.

Miss Benti, could you come and help me?

This is a regular teacher, Miss Benti.

She's choosing a book randomly.

James hasn't read any of them before,

he normally only looks at the pictures.

We've got The Phoenix And The Carpet.

-Has anybody read The Phoenix And The Carpet?

-No.

Me neither.

But what I can tell you is that there are exactly 320 pages

in this book.

All right?

So what we're going to do is just look at one page,

so I need somebody to put their hand up

and choose a page number, any one between one and 320.

Yes?

-Em...150.

-150, that's one...five...zero.

OK, so let's turn to one...five...zero,

just gone past it a little bit and you can see one-five-zero there.

Now, if you hold that for me, I'm going to try and remember

as much of this page as I possibly can

in the quickest time possible, all right?

James is about to speed-read that page in record time

using magical powers.

What I need YOU to do, is I need you to count along

to time me how long it takes.

So count, one, two, three... OK? You know what you have to do?

-Yes.

-All right, and... Go!

-One, two, three, four, five, six, seven...

-Done.

-..eight.

-Done.

James couldn't have read it that quickly without using magic,

but the class still believe him.

-How long was that, seven, eight seconds?

-Eight seconds.

I can tell you on page 150, there are 33 different lines.

Which line shall we use?

Number one, two, three, four?

-20?

-Number 20? OK.

Line number 20. Give me a moment...

Line 20, but what does it say?

Surely James won't know? He can't have memorised it!

On line 20, on page 150, there are eight words.

Is that right, do you want to count the words?

-Yes.

-There are eight words. OK, excellent.

Which word shall we go for? One, two, three, four,

-five, six, seven or eight? Which one?

-Six.

Six, the sixth word...

..is... Oh, this is...

-It begins with an "S".

-Yes.

Yeah, it begins with an "S" and it's..."spoken". Is it "spoken"?

-Yes.

-Excellent.

CHILDREN CHEER

Here it is..."spoken".

That's pretty good. That's pretty good, isn't it?

-Yeah.

-D'you want to see something even better?

-Yes.

-This is amazing.

-Great skills, James.

With tricks like that he'll soon be writing his autobiography...

with a magic marker, naturally.

We'll try something different this time.

Miss Benti's choosing a new book at random.

What's this one? This is The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling.

-Has anybody read this?

-Yes.

OK. We're going to try something slightly different this time

because the advantage of this technique is

you don't actually have to read the book traditionally.

So you normally would turn to a page and go left to right

all the way down the page, reading the words and then turning the page.

You don't have to do that with this technique.

This'll be strange. Could you hold the book with your one hand?

Great, and with the other hand,

if you could reach over and flip through the pages like a flipbook,

and you have to time me. Ready... Go!

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven...

-Done. What was that?

-Seven.

Seven. Seven seconds, oh, I don't know if I got all of that actually,

just trying to remember how many pages there are.

I think there are 303 pages in that book?

-Am I close - 302, 303?

-303.

303 pages are in that book. CHILDREN CHEER

This speed-reading trick is a real thriller,

but there's another magical chapter to come.

Let's try something different. A page number,

so who can give me a page number between one and 303?

-At the back.

-Em...240.

200, so that's two-four-zero. 240. OK, if you could turn to page 240.

Now James is going to remember the whole page.

Difficult number cos it's quite, quite far on in the book.

All right, I'm struggling just to remember the first line.

Right, I think - don't let me see the book -

page 240 is...

"'What will they do?' Little Toomai called out."

"'Ohe, little one...'"

And then the next bit is...

-"..Art thou there?" Is that right?

-Yes.

CHILDREN CHEER

-Page 240. Wouldn't that be a great skill to have?

-Yes.

-Now, would you like me to tell you how it's done?

-Yes.

Spoiler alert.

Time for James to tell the class how this trick ends.

I need to let you in on a little secret.

-So can you all keep secrets?

-Yes.

Put your hand up if you can keep a secret? Excellent.

The secret is Rapid Recall Literacy doesn't exist.

I made it up.

No such thing, and not only that, I'm not even a teacher.

I'm a magician and this isn't even real hair, it's a wig!

And all of your parents and your teachers

have set you up to be filmed today on secret cameras,

just there and there and there for CBBC,

Help! My Supply Teacher's Magic! Give 'em a wave!

CHILDREN SHRIEK

James' speed-reading trick was a bestseller

and the class bought it, but were they lost for words?

I was just, like, scared and my belly went.

Even when I hadn't found out my belly went backwards,

I felt like I was just somewhere magical.

"'Art thou there?'" Is that right?

James' feats of memory made this a lesson the class will never forget.

It was really amazing.

Like, he could remember every single thing on a page.

It was so amazing, I thought I was going to faint,

it was just so brilliant.

An amazing trick and this class didn't realise...

I love that speed reading. I'm going to give it a try.

It's easy!

We'll see you later, 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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