Episode 8 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 just 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...

-CHILDREN:

-Help! My supply teacher is still magic!

Hello, it's me Iain, and welcome 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 Two, even more magic.

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.

Yep, we're cleverer than a black belt in Sudoku.

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

tricks like this.

Check out this rope so both ends connect in the middle.

Then I just and...

-SLIDE WHISTLE

-Erm...

I'll get back to you on that one.

Just check out these clips.

Katherine teaches a lesson on being green, and produces a white

-flower out of the blue.

-..and flourish.

-Wow.

For John's interactive illusion you will need a deck of cards.

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 for another spell but first...

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

Do you?

This is Katherine - she's both a classy and crafty magician.

The disguise is ready, the hidden cameras are set.

Enter year four, they're about to see a magical lesson about

the environment but haven't noticed their surroundings have

been changed by hiding cameras in the classroom.

They haven't recognised Katherine as our magician either,

but they're about to get a lesson about being green that's the best

I've ever seen.

Good morning, everyone.

I'm going to be taking your geography lesson today,

and what we're learning about is recycling.

Now us human beings are creating far too much waste,

and we're running out of places to put it so we're finding it more

and more difficult to get rid of our waste without polluting our planet.

There's nothing rubbish about this trick coming up, though.

Now most of us, at home, don't think anything about just

throwing our rubbish into our bins and then the rubbish man comes

along, takes it away and throws it into a big hole, which is called a

landfill and it just gets left there to decompose for many, many years.

So if you think about it,

it's almost as if our bins don't even have a bottom.

There's no bottom on that bin, that's important.

Our rubbish gets thrown in, left on the ground and left to rot away.

So today I thought it would be a really, really fun idea

if we made a recycling bin.

-Would you like to do that? ALL:

-Yes.

-Yeah? Brilliant.

So what I've brought with me today is this,

which is a recycling machine.

So to make this work,

what we're gonna do, is make sure our bin is nice and clean

and we can put that inside and make sure, the machine is nice and clean.

They're both empty, no funny business going on there.

So what I've brought with me today is a plastic bottle.

Now, a plastic bottle is a great thing to recycle,

because it takes about 500 years for one of these to decompose.

We're gonna have a go at recycling this today, so let's put it into

the bin and I want all of you on the count of three to shout recycle.

-Can you do that? ALL:

-Yes.

-Brilliant.

OK, so one, two, three.

-ALL:

-Recycle!

Brilliant. Now it shouldn't take long and there you go,

we've got ourselves a brand new bottle of water.

Whoa, how did that happen?

Now something else that I thought would be a great idea to recycle

is some of my post.

Now, if you're gonna recycle your personal letters it's a good idea

to shred them first, so no-one can find out any of your information.

So if we just shred this first of all...

MACHINE WHIRS

Like that. So there you go.

Now before we put that in let's just check...

No gizmos hidden inside her recycling bin thingy.

..our bin is nice and clean, and our recycling machine is nice

and clean. So, let's pop in all of the shredded paper.

Well and truly shredded. But coming up is a mind-shredding trick.

And I think we're ready to recycle.

So, on the count of three everyone, can everyone say it with me?

-One, two, three... Recycle! ALL:

-Recycle!

And it shouldn't take too long, and there you go -

we've got ourselves a brand new recycled envelope and letter.

Whoa, the letter was in tiny pieces,

and now it's been fully restored!

Have I convinced you all to recycle?

-ALL:

-Yes.

Yes? Good. So I hope you're not gonna be throwing away

all of your rubbish in the bin.

What I hope you're gonna be doing is throwing

in your recycling bin, keeping our planet clean and tidy,

and allowing our plants to grow and flourish.

Boom, a flower in bloom.

-The machine was empty.

-Where did Katherine get that flower?

Do you know what I realised?

This letter that was recycled actually has secret information,

do you want me to tell you what it says?

-ALL:

-Yes!

It's time for Katherine to spill the magic beans.

This is what it says - "Dear class, things are not what they seem.

"The lady in front of you is not a real teacher."

That's me.

And it wasn't a real lesson

because you're all being filmed right now with hidden cameras over

there and over there and over there cos you're gonna be on

Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic.

Katherine's recycling trick was awesome,

but did it make the class giddy, and turn them green?

I thought it was just, like, breathtaking.

Katherine took their breath away,

and caught them out with her magical recycling device.

She showed us it was empty,

and then put a scrunched up bottle of water in, spun the wheel

round and it turned into a bottle full of water, which was just weird.

This trick had a lot of bottle, and a bunch of flowers.

The flower just popped out of nowhere and I was like,

"No, this is freaking me out now."

It was really, really weird. I liked it.

An incredible trick, and it took the class a while to realise

Katherine was a magician.

How long would it take for you to shout?

-CHILDREN:

-Help! My supply teacher is still magic!

Later on, you'll see what happened

when John went undercover at another school.

Not only did it spell trouble, it also spelled magic.

Right now though, Fergus is at a farm,

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

Could you hold onto that for me for the moment?

And do you have on you a ten pound note, five, 20, anything?

-Just some sort of note.

-Got a tenner.

-Fantastic.

Could you take the note and scribble your name nice

and big across the note for me?

Lovely. Thank you.

And then could you just show that to the camera for me?

Nina, brilliant. I'm gonna swap that for that. Lovely.

Now if I screw this up, into a very, very small ball.

Boys, I'd like you to have a look, you'll see there's a cup

and a saucer, and I'd like you to have a look at the cup

and the saucer, just make sure they're normal.

You can touch them, pick them up, make sure they're regular.

-Yep, they are.

-Yeah? Could you pick up the cup for me, Ryan?

And I'd like you to put it on top of the note, so it covers the note.

-Like this?

-Yeah, brilliant.

Now, how amazing would it be if I could get that ten-pound note

out from under the cup, without touching the cup?

-That would be amazing.

-That would be incredible.

What about if I had my hands in my pockets, and I could STILL get

the ten-pound note out from under the cup without touching the cup?

-Wouldn't that be incredible?

-Yeah, that'd be even better.

Ready, three, two, one. Nina, have a look.

See, I said I wouldn't touch the cup.

Sneaky Fergus. Let's see some real magic.

But watch very closely. Can you see the note in the cup, yeah?

-Can you see that there?

-Yeah.

So if the note goes from the cup, to my hand, to my pocket,

-where's the note?

-In your pocket.

-Yeah, very good.

But if I tap my pocket, tap the cup, the note returns again.

What? It's back in the cup.

Ryan can you hold out your hand for me?

I want you to let everyone know the moment you feel anything.

So the note's in Fergus' pocket?

-Do you feel anything yet?

-No.

-Nothing's happened yet.

Just let us know the moment you feel anything.

It'll be incredible.

-Yes.

-Yeah? In your hand? Did you feel that land?

-Yeah.

The note went from Fergus' pocket to Ryan's hand.

Could you hold the saucer and the cup, Nina?

With both hands on the saucer, lovely.

Now do you know what happens if I take the note

and I hit that on top of the cup? Do you know what happens?

-It'll go in the cup.

-We get a lime. Have a look, check it out.

A lime? I didn't see that coming.

Now I don't suppose anyone's got on them

a kind of like a...corer, or anything like that? No?

No.

It's quite an unusual request, I know.

Oh, this will do. perfect.

Now I will be very careful, don't try this at home,

I'm a trained professional.

I need to get into the lime, so I'm gonna use this to get into the lime.

I'm just gonna very, very carefully

cut open the lime.

Do you know what would be absolutely impossible?

If I was to open up the lime and inside there was a ten-pound note.

-Can you see that?

-Yeah.

-Ryan, reach over and take it out.

Now that's impressive enough, but what if it was the very one

we've been using through the whole trick,

that Nina signed at the very beginning?

-Wouldn't that be impossible?

-Yeah.

Open it up, have a look. Is her name on there?

-Yep.

-Amazing.

'A sharp trick, Fergus. And they've got a lime flavoured

'ten pound note as a souvenir, but they're not bitter.'

I don't know how he put the ten pound note in the lime

cos it wasn't cut. So I don't know how he did it.

It was so cool. It was amazing. I've never seen anything like that.

Now James is gonna 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 got a piece of paper with an arrow drawn on it, a clear

plastic cup and some water.

He's gonna show you how to make the arrow on the paper change

direction without touching the paper.

Keep watching, and you'll find out how to do it later in the show.

It's gonna be incredible.

Right, now, we have something amazing for you.

Have you got your deck of cards ready?

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.

That's it, nice and close.

Don't breathe too heavily, you'll steam up the screen.

You ready? Here's John.

Go on, get your deck of cards ready now.

Take out any nine cards from your pack.

That's any nine cards, except the jokers.

Have you got nine cards? And no jokers? Good.

Put the rest of the deck away, we won't be using it.

Now, hold the nine cards in the packet, face down like this

and give them a little mix up.

Now there's no way that I could know which cards you have,

or what order they're in.

Turn the cards towards you, and spread them out in a fan like this.

Now, remember the third card from the back of the fan.

For me, that would be the four of clubs.

Now, turn the packet face down, you're going to deal

the cards face down onto the table, one on top of the other, spelling

the value of your card, with one card being dealt for each letter.

I picked the four, so I'll spell like this. F-O-U-R.

Do that now.

OK. Take the cards in your hand, and drop them

on top of the ones on the table.

Now pick up the whole packet, we're going to spell another word.

The middle word in the name of every card is "of".

For example, the ace "of" spades.

So we'll spell "of" now. O-F. Perfect.

Take the cards in your hand and drop them on the cards on the table.

Now pick up the whole packet, and I want you to spell the suit

of your card, so that will be either clubs, hearts, spades or diamonds.

Don't forget to include the "S".

I'm thinking of clubs so I'll spell clubs.

C-L-U-B-S. Do that now.

Have you done that? Excellent.

Now, drop the cards in your hand onto the cards onto

the cards on the table.

Now you have one last choice.

You can turn the cards face up or face down.

It's completely up to you, but decide now.

OK, now it's time for the magic.

Deal the cards to the table, one at a time, spelling magic.

When you get to the "C", that card will be your card. Are you ready?

M-A-G-I...

..C.

I got my card, did you get yours?

Whoa! That is magic!

Next up, Katherine's at a fairground getting up close and magical.

Right, I'm about to show you something amazing

with these two coins.

We've got here a one-pence piece

and a five- pence piece, yeah?

OK, what I'd like you to do, Lucy,

is if you could just hold your hand out for me,

and I want you to clasp the two coins in your hand, OK?

And put them behind your back. That's perfect.

I want you to separate the two coins,

so you're just going to have one coin in one hand

and one coin in the other hand, and tell me when you've done that.

Have you done that? OK, brilliant. Bring them both back out for me,

and what I want you to do is choose a hand that you're going to open

and then open that hand.

Great, OK, so we've got the one pence here.

-OK.

-OK? And what do you have in your hand?

-Five pence.

-The five pence, exactly, but watch.

If I rub the one pence like that, it then becomes the five pence,

and look, open your hand, and you've now got the penny in your hand.

-Isn't that amazing?

-Yeah!

How did she do that?!

That's really cool.

I had a 5p in my hand, and then she rubbed it...

She basically just rubbed it on.

And then she had 5p in her hand and when I opened it, I had a 1p.

-Awesome!

-Yeah, yeah, yeah, awesome. Yeah, awesome.

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

and the quality has blown my mind.

In fact, it's blown my hair... all over the place.

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

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

It's all sorts of ridiculousness.

Katherine has the key to getting Up Close And Magical.

-It was in this hand.

-That was a brilliant trick.

James 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 their supply teacher's still magic?

Phew! 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 ice pack in case the magic makes my brain hurt,

and I've got my computer to watch it all 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 our favourite Wannabe Wizard

and showing them to you guys.

My Wannabe Wizard this time is Adam from Dunblane,

and he's going to make headlines with this trick.

Hi, my name's Adam, and this is my newspaper trick.

I once saw an old man do a magic trick with a newspaper.

And what he started to do was he started rolling...the newspaper

so it was like that.

And he would just...go like that.

And then he took a glass of milk

and started to pour the milk into the newspaper.

Careful, Adam I hope you know what you're doing!

We'll use a bit more than that.

That should do.

He's milking his big moment.

But then he made the milk vanish, which I thought was very cool,

but what's even better than milk vanishing is...milk chocolate.

-An unexpectedly tasty trick.

-Mm!

And that's why Adam's 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 make the arrow on the piece of paper

change direction without touching it.

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

Is there special ink in the pen? Nah!

Do you look at the paper from the other side?

Don't be daft!

The trick is that you place a clear cup in front of the arrow

and fill it with water.

When you look at the arrow through the water,

it looks like it's pointing in the opposite direction.

Did you get it? Are you amazing already?

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

Next, Katherine's flexing her skills again,

Up Close And Magical.

Do you know what a lot of people say to me?

They say, "Of course, Katherine,

"you can do that magic

"because you've got fast hands."

So what I was planning on doing today

is showing you the slowest trick that I know, OK?

-So you can watch as carefully as you like, OK?

-Right.

So what I'm going to use is my house key here,

and then I've got a ten-pence piece here, OK?

So I'm going to put them both in my hand, like that,

and I just want you to say either key or ten pence.

-Key.

-Key, OK.

Great, so not the ten pence, you're not choosing the ten pence,

so we're going to take out the ten pence like that, OK?

Leaving us with the key in this hand.

But watch, if I just squeeze my hands like this, really slowly,

-did you see anything happen then?

-No.

-No, nothing happened?

-Nothing at all.

-But look, something did happen,

cos now the key is in this hand and the ten pence is in this hand.

It's very strange. I'm going to show you that again.

Do that again, yes.

-This time I'm going to make it even fairer for you.

-Right!

OK, I'm going to keep my hand open.

So I take out the ten-pence piece, OK,

-so leaving us with what in this hand?

-Key.

-Key.

The key? No.

The ten pence is in this hand, and the key is in this hand.

-Did you see that happen?

-Did not see that happen.

It's very, very confusing. Hold out your hand for me?

There you go, you can check those out as well, have a look at them.

An amazing trick, Katherine!

Kieron and Connor can't unlock your secret.

She had a key and a ten pence,

and the key swapped from one hand, which the ten pence was in,

into the other.

That was a brilliant trick.

Did you see that? You needed two pairs of eyes to see that.

Unfortunately, I do.

I've got these ones here and, er...these two here.

I knew I'd make a name for myself one day.

OK, it's time for more school magic, and you've guessed it,

John's about to become a supply teacher to fool another class.

The disguise is ready, John's watch is synchronised.

Enter year four. They don't know it yet,

but John's about to do a lesson involving statistics.

The odds are there'll be magic involved, too.

None of them have noticed the hidden cameras

or recognised John with his goatee beard on,

but will the class be scratching their chins when the magic begins?

I'm going to be teaching you a maths lesson today,

and we're going to be teaching a lesson on statistics.

And you can use statistics

to calculate how often a coincidence will happen.

A good example of a coincidence

would be if you decided to go out and buy a present for him

and you decided to go out and buy a present for him,

and you both went out shopping on different days, separately,

and when you gave each other the presents and you opened them,

you'd both bought each other exactly the same present.

All present and correct so far nobody suspects a thing.

I need somebody to help me.

Let me see, yeah, this boy here, I think you'd be good.

-Come on out here, what's your name?

-Zayn.

Zayn? Excellent, Zayn, come over here with me, that's wonderful.

Now, Zayn, we're going to try an experiment using some alphabet cards.

We've got the letters of the alphabet on these cards,

all 26 letters of the alphabet, OK? And what we're going to do

is we're going to use one set of alphabet cards for you,

and I've got another set of cards exactly the same.

Alphabet cards as well.

John and Zayn have the same set of alphabet cards.

Keep watching John's going to do something that defies logic.

Now, Zayn, what I'd like you to do is hold your cards face down,

and we're going to mix them up

and see if we can make a coincidence happen.

So, Zayn, if you just mix your cards up a little bit, that's it.

Zayn's mixing the cards up good and proper.

That's it, mix them up, some at the bottom, some at the top.

And then when you've mixed them up, Zayn,

what I'd like you to do is, I'd like you to place your top card on there,

and I'll place my top card on there.

Now, what are the chances of us both having the same letter?

-Does anybody know? Yes?

-One out of 26.

One out of 26, that's right. Let's see, which one did I give you?

You got the G.

And I gave you the G as well, we've both got the letter G.

Now, that's a 1-in-26 chance.

Now, obviously the odds get simpler,

it gets much easier the less cards we have.

So now one card's missing,

-so the chances of getting it right now are one in...?

-25.

25, so it gets a little bit easier each time we do this, Zayn.

That's it, give them a good mix, and when you're happy, Zayn,

we're going to do exactly the same thing.

You place your card on there, I place my card on there.

The chances of getting the same letter, one in 25,

but if we have a look, you chose the letter A,

and I gave you the letter A,

so that's twice we've managed to match them.

Now, this is statistics that is making this happen,

I'm going to explain how it works.

But we've now got 24 cards left,

so it's much easier, so give them a good mix.

Wonderful. Are you happy they're all mixed up?

Zayn is still randomly shuffling.

John can't pick out the same card again, can he?

Put your card there, I put my card there.

If it's worked, this is a 1-in-24 chance,

and I have got the letter C,

and you've got the letter C as well.

It gets easier each time we do it.

Three in a row a statistic hat-trick.

Can John conjure a fourth coincidence?

Give them a little mix,

and then I'll give you my top card, you give me your top card.

There's three cards missing, so what are the odds?

The pupils have worked out the odds,

but they haven't worked out something odd is happening.

Let's have a look and see which letters we got.

Oh, we got an I this time, we're going to do it one last time.

Give them a little mix-up, Zayn, that's it.

And then you give me the top card.

And what are the chances now? One in...?

-22.

-One in 22, let's see how we did, Zayn.

Look, he got the letter M, and I got the letter M.

Wonderful, thank you very much.

Zayn, I'll take those back, you can go and take a seat.

Now, the chances of me knowing

that I would have these letters selected by both of us

gets quite complicated.

The chances of it happening is 1 in 26 times 25 times 24

times 23 times 22,

which is over 1 in 7.5 million.

So if I could manage to work out that the letter G would be chosen

and then the letter A would be chosen,

and then the letter C would be chosen, like this,

and then the letter I would be chosen and then the letter M,

that would be a 7.5 million-to-1 chance.

How did he do it? John's going to spell it out.

Of course it could be done by another method, which is this...

Magic.

Because I'm not really a teacher.

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

I'm actually a magician, and there's a camera here,

there's a camera at the back, a camera here,

and you've all been on CBBC's Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic.

John's magic was amazing, and that was no coincidence,

but how did it all add up for the class?

Absolutely...amazed because I didn't think that that could really happen.

I just thought they were going to get different cards each time.

The letter G would be chosen...

The statistic trick went from odd to even better

when the letters spelled "magic".

I thought we were going to just do maths, so I was pretty surprised.

Yeah, and there's a really big difference between magic and maths.

A really big difference.

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

I like to play that coincidence game on my own.

Watch this, it works every time.

Oh, it usually works.

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 is still magic!

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