Episode 7 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 the classrooms

and watched as they taught spectacular lessons.

Went 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 a new term.

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

-IN BOOMING VOICE:

-Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic 2:

The Classroom Of Secrets.

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.

Yes, we're smarter than a freshly ironed smartphone.

We'll also show you loads of other great tricks.

Tricks like this. It's my snake-charming trick.

Watch this.

What did you do THAT for?!

Just watch the clips.

James is undercover in this class of Year 4s.

He's doing a trick using this antenna,

but will the class be on his wavelength?

Fergus gets up close and magical to tie your brain in knots.

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

And later on, I will be picking my favourite.

It's the Wannabe Wizards, and you're going to be wowed.

But first...

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

Do you?

This is James.

His magical skills are enough to do your head in.

The disguise is in place, the hidden cameras are set.

Keep your hair on, James.

That's better.

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

but James is about to give them a magical lesson about navigation

that will make them lose their minds.

None of them have noticed the hidden cameras or recognised James.

But how long will it be before they place him as a magician?

Now, I am from a local university.

And my students have been working on a really, really exciting project

for the last three years - a long, long time.

It's a GPS device which enables you

to track all of your possessions all the time.

James is making this all up,

but they still believe he's from the university.

We've been using something called nanotechnology,

which is really, really small.

Eventually it'll fit into a smartphone, like this.

It'll fit into the phone.

Unfortunately, we haven't quite got it that small yet.

It's a bit bigger than first intended, but this is it.

-Would you like to see a demonstration?

-Yeah!

OK, excellent.

Then, we must put our phone in the dock, like that,

and then just turn it on.

Excellent, the light's on there. And this is the most important bit.

We've got an antenna which picks up the items that we've lost.

-Now, could you help me? What's your name?

-Alfie.

Alfie, would you like to come up and help me?

If you could just stand here, that would be great.

In a minute I need you to do a very, very important job.

In this box I have a number of items that I've brought from home.

There's a globe in there, there's a dinosaur, a car.

What I'd like you to do is, I'm going to turn my back, OK?

When I turn my back, I would like you to open the box,

take out any object, hold it up for everybody to see,

and then put the object behind your back

and put the lid back on the box so I don't know what's missing.

-Does that make sense?

-Yes.

-Great, OK. So, if you open the box...

Remember, James can't see what he's choosing

and the GPS app is not real.

He's got the red plastic strawberry -

only you, me and the class know that.

And then if you put the lid back on the box

-and put the item behind your back. Have you done that?

-Yes.

Is it safe for me to turn around, everybody?

Yes.

OK, now you have an item behind your back

-and you all know what it is?

-Yeah.

-Well, nobody tell me.

Now, we need to calibrate it,

which means we need to set the device to the items in the box.

So we do this...

That... Yeah.

James is pretending that the device can read the box.

But if this is not real, how's he going to know what Alfie's chosen?

OK, and then I need to calibrate it.

-Yeah.

-You've just...

-OK, OK, I think I got it! I think it's...

I think the object... First of all, it comes up very blurry at first.

But I think... I think the object is red. Is it red?

-Yes!

-I'm getting a reading of red.

-It is red. Has he read his mind?

The class are impressed, but don't suspect a thing.

This is quite a hard object. Is this the red strawberry?

-Yes!

-The red strawberry. Isn't that amazing? Shall we try this again?

-Yeah.

-OK, but this time why don't we make it a little bit more difficult?

-Yes.

-Yeah? So what I would like to do this time is, Alfie...

You can put that back in the box.

This time I want you to give it to anybody in the class.

Don't choose them yet, choose them later. Does that make sense?

And then you can take your seat again.

Everybody else, what I need you to do is,

when I turn round, everybody has their hands underneath the desk.

-Does everybody know what they have to do?

-Yeah!

-Alfie, do you know what you have to do?

-Yes.

OK, so I turn my back, you open the box.

Take an item.

Show everybody in the class what it is, make sure that everybody sees.

He's got the bracelet, and James can't see it.

And then put the lid back on the box.

And then go and give it to anybody in the room, anybody you want.

OK, have we all got our hands underneath the table?

-Yeah.

-OK, can I turn round?

-Yeah.

-All right, so first of all I need to find out where...the...

..object...

Excellent, so...

One of the class is holding the object.

The rest are holding their breath.

Yeah.

BUZZING, LAUGHTER

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Now I'm getting a read... Oh, wait.

This... No, no, it's not.

Your name begins with M, the person who has this doesn't.

ALL: Ooh!

Is your... Your name is...Marlon?

-THEY GASP

-It IS Marlon! How did he know his name?!

That's amazing, James.

It's not you, you don't have the object.

But who has the bracelet and where?

Ah, it's very, very strong over here.

Very, very strong in this side of the room.

You don't have it. Ah...

Your name begins with a Z. THEY GASP AND SHOUT

And you have the object - you're Zana?

And wait, wait, wait, don't tell me what it is.

This is the best bit.

Your name is Zana, you have a bracelet. Can you show everybody?

He's right. But how did that happen without the app?!

I can't work it out.

So, now can I see the bracelet?

My supply teacher is magic!

Oh, I heard someone say it then. They're starting to work it out.

Now, class...

Would you like me to tell you how it works?

Yes.

OK, well, we didn't actually make this three years ago.

We actually made this about three weeks ago,

and this...

This does nothing, because you are all being filmed

for Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic!

James's navigation trick has sent the class round the bend.

But did it warp their minds?

I actually believed it

and then I thought it was going to be really good.

I didn't think it was going to be a magic trick.

I really believed him, from the whole thing.

The device was quite incredible.

It WAS incredible. It seemed like it could even locate people.

Is your... Your name is...

Marlon?

I was quite amazed how he knew everyone's names.

And then James found a hidden object using magic.

You have a bracelet.

Can you show everybody?

The best trick ever.

The class were "GPS-stounded" and it took them a while

to realise James was a magician.

How long will it take for YOU to shout...

Later on you'll see what happened

when John went undercover in another school.

-Will his percussion lesson leave them shaking?

-Look at this.

ALL: Whoa!

Right now, rock-steady Fergus is getting up close and magical.

I've got two rubber bands

that I'd like you to have a look at.

So, you have a look at that one,

and you have a look at that one.

Make sure they're normal, they don't come apart.

And, Nina, do you have a note on you, like a £5, £10, £20 note?

-Doesn't really matter.

-£20 note.

Lovely, if you just hold on to that for a second.

Could you pop that rubber band back on that finger there?

Forefinger, lovely. And could you put that one on my ring finger?

Fantastic.

And if you watch closely, Daniel, if I put this hand through

and stretch out, can you see

I've now got four little steps of rubber band, right?

-Yeah.

-Yeah, good.

Could you take that £20 note and could you fold it lengthways?

-That's it, yeah.

-Yeah.

-And then in half again, perfect.

And could you thread it onto the very bottom band?

-Like that?

-That's it, brilliant.

Could you do me a favour, can you hold onto that £20 note, Daniel?

Watch very carefully.

The £20 is on the bottom of the ladder of rubber bands.

Now, to get that £20 note up to this band,

Daniel would have to let go of the £20 note,

we'd have to unthread it and then thread it onto this one, right?

-Yeah.

-But watch. By magic, one, two, three.

-We can move it up...

-Cor!

-..one of the bands.

Keep holding on tight. Watch the middle of this band.

One, two, three, and it goes up again.

-That's cool.

-Watch it go through...

Your note melt through to the top on the final band.

One, two, three...

and it goes right to the top. How cool is that?

Have a look at the note, make sure that's normal.

Have a look at the rubber bands.

The £20 note went all the way from the bottom to the top.

Great trick, Fergus.

I thought that trick was fantastic.

I've never seen anything like that before.

'He used the £20 note

'and it melted onto the next rubber band. It was amazing.

'I could never do that.'

That was the best trick I've ever seen so far.

Amazing.

Fantastico.

Now Katherine 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.

Katherine has got a plastic bottle and a pen lid.

After placing the pen lid in the bottle,

she's going to show you how to get the lid out

without touching anything.

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 could take part at home.

So, come on, you've to pay close attention.

Get up over here if you want to join in.

But leave the monkey in the basket.

That's your baby brother?! Sorry.

Clasp your hands together in front of you, like this.

Thumbs crossed on the top, and push your palms together nice and tight.

Now, extend your first fingers,

but keep them apart, like I am.

Keep pushing your palms together. Excellent.

Whilst you're doing that,

I'm going to take this invisible string

and start to wrap it around your fingertips.

As I wrap the string around your fingertips,

they'll start to get closer together

as the invisible string gets tighter and tighter.

Keep pushing your palms together.

See? Your fingers are moving.

I'll keep winding, and your fingers will get closer together

until eventually...they touch.

I'll take off the invisible string,

and your fingers are back to normal.

How incredible's that?

Did it work for you?

Wow, well, the quantity of the magic is exhausting

and the quality has been out of this world.

In fact, it's been SO out of this world

I'm feeling a little bit weightless.

But before I float away, I should probably sit down.

No, but quickly, let's have a look at what's coming up.

It's all kinds of ridiculousness.

Fergus will make sure you're not at a loose end

when he gets up close and magical.

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?

HE SIGHS

Each week I'm bringing you

another of our new favourite magic movers and shakers

doing tricks in their own cribs, yards and front rooms.

We call them the Wannabe Wizards.

It's time for my favourite bit of the show.

I've got my comfy chair.

I've got my hat with a rabbit in it. Innit?

It isn't.

And I've got my computer thingy to watch the magic. Let's DO this!

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 Greg from Aberdeenshire,

and he's enlisted his brother for this trick.

-Right, would you please say stop at any point?

-Stop.

Take the card, show it to the camera and tell me when you're done.

There's Greg's brother, and he's chosen the king of diamonds.

OK, now slide it into the deck.

Right there.

Now, I'm going to try and find your card using the sense of touch,

-which is pretty difficult, so will you give me three goes?

-Yep.

OK. Attempt number one.

Greg didn't see the card,

but he's trying to pick it out of the deck behind his back.

I think I've got it, but I can't be sure.

Is that it?

-No.

-Is that it?

-No.

-No? What was your card?

-King of diamonds.

-Oh, I was close.

I got a king and a diamond. But watch the deck here.

The rest of the deck vanishes, leaving the king of diamonds.

King Greg, you're my Wannabe Wizard!

It's time for Katherine to reveal the secret in Tricks Of The Trade.

Katherine will show you how to get the lid out of this bottle

without touching it. Come on, have you worked it out yet?

How many of you got it?

Do you shake the bottle?

Nah, you can't touch it.

Do you tap the end of the bottle?

You can't touch it, remember - are you not listening?!

The trick is to place the bottle on the table

with its neck facing outwards.

Next, get down on the same level as the table,

then place the pen cap into the neck of the bottle

so the top of the cap is facing you, like this.

Now, when you blow into it,

the airflow inside will force the cap out of the bottle.

The cap is out without you touching it.

Now you've all got something to blow your friends' minds.

Next, Fergus has got a rope trick

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

-Do you want to see some magic?

-Oh, yes!

-Yes!

Super, right. We have got a piece of rope.

What I'd like you to do is have a look at it.

Stretch it, make sure it doesn't come apart.

Feel along the rope

and make sure there's no magnets or there's nothing in the rope at all.

And when you're happy, you can give it back to me.

-Mmm, yep.

-Yeah.

Hmm, very suspicious, brilliant.

So I want you to say stop...

When you think I get to the middle of the rope, say stop.

-Stop!

-There? Very good.

So I'm going to take where you said, and I'm going to cut the rope.

And what that will do is give me two pieces equal in length...

Oh, not quite. Not quite equal. Oh, no.

-When you boys had it, did it stretch at all?

-No.

Watch what happens if I take the short piece against the long piece.

-Watch, one, two, three. See it stretch?

-Yeah!

So now I've got two pieces exactly the same length.

But do you know what, this trick works better with just one piece.

Keep your eye on the ends, right? Keep your eye on the ends.

Keep your eye on there.

So if you watch very closely, you'll see the moment they come off,

and then I'm left with a loop and ends, and ends and a loop.

But don't worry, I worked out exactly how to correct this.

I just take the ends, and on the count of three,

I throw them straight back on the rope. One, two, three,

and they go back on. It's simple, really.

Keep your eye on the middle, though, don't take your eyes off the middle.

-Can you see it there?

-I can see that.

-And it's firmly on, right?

-Yeah.

-Wrong. You see, that comes off.

The loop's off and so far this trick's been absolutely loopy.

But just like before, when I threw them back on the rope,

I've learnt with these exactly how to place them

back onto the middle of the rope.

Did you see them land on?

Do you know, the hardest thing to do is to actually make the ends travel.

It's to make them travel. But not just travel, travel invisibly.

So watch the ends get into my pocket, ready?

The ends go into my pocket, and on the count of one, two...

Three. Did you see the ends jump to the top?

Yeah, he just made the ends of the rope

jump from his pocket to his hand!

And look, now in my pocket is the middle.

Have a look at it, it doesn't stretch at all. Isn't that amazing?

That trick WAS amazing, and it's how Fergus makes ends meet.

He made the ends come off and then he somehow put them back on.

One, two, three, and they go back on.

And then he put the ends in his pocket

-and then the trick was up there. It just swapped.

-Yeah.

Did you see the ends jump to the top?

-I really don't know.

-It's amazing. It's amazing how he did it.

Because we've just seen a rope trick, here's me pulling a rope.

It's pretty powerful stuff.

Yeah? Here's me walking against the wind.

And then I can also do stuck-in-a-box.

This is inconvenient.

And if you close your eyes, that's turning out the lights.

Right, open them now.

OK, it's time for more school magic,

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

and trying to fool another class.

The hidden cameras are set, the disguise is on.

But will John's face ring a bell?

BELL RINGS

Enter Year 3. They don't know it yet,

but they're about to get an amazing lesson about percussion

that will leave them shaken.

So far, none of them have noticed the hidden cameras in their hall

or recognised John as our magician.

But they're about to have a musical lesson that will be a real hit.

I'm going to give you a lesson today, a music lesson.

I haven't always been a teacher. I've just recently become a teacher.

I used to be a professional orchestra leader.

But I still love music.

John DOES love music. That may be true. But what's coming up is magic.

I thought I'd teach you about something called rhythm.

And rhythm is made up of two things - sound and silence.

For example, if I've got a drum beat and it goes boom...boom...boom,

The thing that makes that rhythm isn't just the boom,

it's the gaps in between. It's the boom...boom...you see?

And if you don't have the... all you've got is booooom,

and that's not a rhythm. Now, I've written a song.

I thought I would sing you the song in a moment, and I thought

it'd be great if we could all do the rhythm for that song.

I've brought some percussion instruments with me

and they're all in this... They're all in this... Ah.

Ah, that's... That's a shame cos there's only, um...

There's only one instrument in here.

Uh-oh, it looks like the box is empty. There's not enough.

I must have forgot to pack them all when I was at the last school.

But this instrument makes a lovely noise. You go like this, listen.

SCRATCHING

And we can get a nice rhythm going.

You don't have to dance, but you can have a try of that for me,

just have a little go.

It's a fun lesson, but it won't last long

if there's only one instrument! But don't worry - John's a magician!

Oh, hang on a minute, there is...

There was this one hidden in the corner, a little shaker.

The magic's started. The box looked empty

but John's found another instrument. Two's still not enough, though.

Do you want to give it a go for me?

Brilliant, OK. So we've nearly got a rhythm.

Unfortunately we haven't got any more instruments in the box.

The box still appears empty.

So we... We can't do it...

Hang on a minute.

Oh, there is... There is... There's this.

Another instrument, and it appeared from out of nowhere!

You can have that one. There we are, give it a shake.

OK, and a shake with that.

And a little shukka-shukka.

Brilliant, stop. Excellent. So we've got...

Oh, there's some more, look.

I didn't see these in there.

These are sandy-wandys, It's like sandpaper -

they go like this, listen. SCRAPING

It made me want to wiggle my hips when I do that, like...

The class like the sound of this lesson.

But despite that magical box of instruments,

they still haven't found the key to John's identity.

OK, everybody, stop.

Hang on a minute, there's some more in here.

There's a tambourine, look.

And there's... There was another shaker.

Here, you have the shaker.

That's it, and you have the tambourine.

OK, all together, everybody, give me some noise.

Brilliant, stop. That's good.

Unfortunately...

Once again the box looks empty.

No instruments in there, and nothing hidden behind the box.

Hang on.

Got one of these, look.

Yes, you can have that. Give it a little go for me.

Brilliant, very good. Oh, and I got another couple of these shakers.

Yes, you can have that. And you can have that.

That's it, give them a shake.

That's good, stop! And... Oh, I've got another two tambourines, look.

Yes, you can have that, wonderful. And you can have that one.

Give them a shake. All right. And everybody now, all together.

Oh, brilliant, and stop! Very good.

Oh, look, I've got another shaker, shukka-shukka, shakka-shakka.

It looks like there's enough for everyone. But how?

There's no end to John's magic, and it seems there's no end to that box.

We can't do any more. We've got no more.

That's all of the instruments in the box.

We'll try one last time.

Everybody doing a rhythm on my count.

One, two, three.

Virtuoso performance from our conjuring conductor.

But it's time for his solo.

Unfortunately, boys and girls, that is the last of the instruments.

We've got nothing else in there, no more percussion instruments.

So we need to do a song and...

Hang on.

Look at this.

THEY GASP AND SHOUT OUT

I think I'm going to have this. Hands down.

I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to play a little song

that I've written, and you all listen to it.

At the end, we might be able to do a rhythm for it. Is that all right?

-Yeah.

-OK, everybody listen.

# Thank you, kids For helping with my mission

# Cos I'm not a teacher No, I'm really a magician

# So please forgive me Though my tactics have been tragic

# Cos you've all been filmed on Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic! #

No wonder they're excited!

That was both a drum-beating and world-beating trick.

The class are going to be banging on about this one for ages.

-He opened the box...

-THEY ALL TALK AT ONCE

Eh?! One at a time!

THEY ALL TALK AT ONCE

Did you get that? It definitely was magic

when instruments kept emerging from this seemingly empty box.

He said that there's no more, and then he looked again

and then he said, "Oh, look, there's actually one more."

It was, like, really exciting.

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

See you later, but until then, if you're at school

and you think something magical's occurring,

maybe you'll find yourselves shouting,

"Help! My supply teacher is still magic!"

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