Episode 5 Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic

CBBC have sent these four magicians into your schools.

They are some of the hottest magicians in the country.

Our magicians went undercover

and they pretended to be supply teachers.

We had secret cameras all over your classrooms

and watched while you had the most incredible lessons.

Our magicians filled whole classes

and shocked them with their spectacular tricks.

But did they come to your school?

-I never knew we were going to be on TV.

-Did they trick you?

-I'm just so freaked out.

-And did you shout..?

Help! My supply teacher is magic, yay!

Hello!

This is Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic and I am Iain.

We've fooled hundreds of you

by swapping regular teachers with magicians.

We even secretly film the results

with special cameras hidden in the classroom.

We have got way more moves than Jagger.

MUSIC: "Moves Like Jagger" by Maroon 5

Just one of my moves.

We've got loads of other great tricks, like this one.

I've been teaching myself balloon modelling.

I can make a dog.

Check this out, it's pretty... It's pretty impressive.

This balloon's faulty, just play the clips.

Katherine's going undercover

to cause mayhem in this class of year sixes.

So I'll just pop the seed in the soil.

-Look, she makes a carrot grow in lightning-quick time.

-Look at that!

But will she have the class eating out of her hand?

We're going to teach you a magic trick so you can fool your friends.

Grab a pencil and a pack of playing cards so you can join in.

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

and later on, I'll be picking my five favourites.

Will you be one of my wannabe wizards?

They're not going to believe I made this. I can't even blow it up.

Hi. I made a dog. Woof, woof.

Could you spot a magician pretending to be a supply teacher?

Could you, really?

This is John, he's a magical ace.

He's also a bit of a joker. He's gone undercover as a supply teacher.

The hidden cameras are set.

Is it your school? Is it your class? Let's find out.

John's about to give year five a geography lesson

that's out of this world.

They know the geography of the classroom as they find their seats,

but none suspect there are hidden cameras everywhere

or realise that John isn't a real teacher.

-Good morning, boys and girls.

-Hello.

I'm going to give you a lesson on geography.

Now who can tell me where the world is?

-Yes.

-In space.

It's in space, but it's not out there in space,

it's here in space, isn't it?

-Because we're on the earth.

-We may be in space, but watch THIS space,

because John's going to make something appear from nowhere.

What do we have on the world?

-Yes?

-Countries.

-Very good. Lots of countries.

The class is worldly wise, but John's about to

turn their world upside down.

I thought what I'd do, is draw a picture of the whole world

so you can see it and you could maybe help me with some of the details.

So, who can tell me first of all,

what else do we have in space apart from the world?

-Yes?

-Stars.

-Stars, excellent. I'll draw a few stars.

John's drawing on the pad

and he's drawing the class in even further with his trick.

-What else do we have? Yes?

-The moon.

-I'll draw the moon.

Very convincing, but he's hardly Da Vinci.

Now who can tell me, what shape is the earth? Yes?

-A sphere.

-It's round, isn't it?

So we'll draw the world here. We said there were lots of countries,

so I'll see if I can remember all of the countries.

Right at the top here we've got Antarctica,

and underneath Antarctica we've got Greenland,

but it's not green because I've been to Greenland -

it's lots of different colours.

Russia, they speak funny languages in Russia and you can't understand

unless you're Russian...

If there's a world cup for talking, John would win hands down.

We've got Great Britain, that's where we live,

you've got Scotland at the top where they play the bagpipes.

Who needs text books? John's a human joke book.

Europe, Europe's very big and it's got lots of countries in it.

Then you've got America over here, and it's very big and loud

cos it's full of Americans.

And now the world isn't flat like that is it? It's not flat.

-It's not. What shape is the world? You said it earlier.

-A sphere.

it's like a ball. Hundreds of years ago,

before mushy peas were invented...

They must suspect he's not a real teacher by now.

..he sailed across, he sailed across the whole world.

The class is all going along with John's unusual lesson,

but they're about to get a shock.

He discovered the world wasn't flat,

he discovered it was a sphere and very heavy, like that.

-Whoa!

-Whoa! That made them jump. Can we get a rewind?

And he discovered it was a sphere, and very, very heavy.

-Like that.

-Whoa!

And look, this is the amazing thing, it's vanished from space.

-Wow!

-Isn't that weird?

APPLAUSE Now...

An earth-shattering trick.

Time for our supply teacher to reveal he's from the world of magic.

-Do you want me to show you how I did that?

-Yes.

-I'm not really a teacher.

-They cannot believe it.

-I'm a magician.

-Ah!

-I know. And this isn't really a lesson.

We're actually filming this for a BBC show

called Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic,

and there's cameras all around filming you.

There's a camera in that box, over there and at the back

and there's a camera over here

and you're all going to be on television.

CLASS CHEERS

He did it! John's brilliant trick has totally fooled the class.

These teachers at school are kind of boring,

so if he is a teacher and a magician at the same time,

we'll want to go to school every day.

First, John drew his funny version of the world on a pad.

You've got Scotland at the top, where they play the bagpipes.

I was amazed because he made like, just paper

turn into this plastic globe, world, so it was scary.

Then he made the round globe appear from the flat pad.

-Whoa!

-And when he opened the pad,

his drawing of the world had disappeared.

What is he going to do next?

Is he going to make his head come off?

John pulled it off. Not his head. The class had no idea

he was a magician. Would you realise your supply is magic?

Help! My supply teacher is magic! Yay!

I have my own version of that trick. Watch this.

Do you know what that is?

That's a drawing of a sheet of paper. Watch this.

Where did that come from?

Later on, Katherine will also be going undercover

as a supply teacher.

She'll make this class' jaws drop to the floor. Is it your class?

Wow, look at that!

Of course, Katherine's not a real teacher,

nor is the extraordinarily smooth magician, James.

He's going to teach you the secret behind a trick

you can use on your mates to blow their minds.

If you fancy yourself as a magician,

here's a trick you can try on your mates.

You'll need a pencil and six cards.

If you haven't got them already, go and get them now. Go on!

Quick, hurry! In the meantime, James will wait for you here.

Are you back? Ready? Good.

Do you know how to lift the six cards using the pencil?

Can you work it out?

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

Right now, though, sneaky Katherine's in a theme park

to do a trick you'll never be able to work out.

I'm going to show you something quite cool

with these two elastic bands.

This is Mia, Isabel,

Emily and Lewis.

They have no idea they're about to star in their own magic show.

Watch carefully.

If you guys could just check them - do they look normal to you?

BOTH: Yes.

They do? OK, I'll have them back. Do you want to have a check?

OK, so you've checked that both of these elastic bands

are perfectly normal

and you're happy with that, yes? ALL: Yes.

I'd like you, Emily, to grab hold of the two middle strands for me

and pinch them in-between your fingers, right in the centre,

and rub, rub your fingers together.

That's perfect. Really, really rub.

And let go. And look at that. Can you see that?

Amazingly, you've linked the two rubber bands together.

Whoa! Emily's linked the rubber bands! How did that happen?

Let's have a rewind.

Rub your fingers together. That's perfect.

Really, really rub. And let go. And look at that.

Amazingly, you've linked the two rubber bands together.

-Can you see that?

-Cool.

That is so amazing.

In fact, Lewis, can you grab a hold of this side for me?

That's perfect. Start rubbing them together, exactly the same way,

really, really rub them together. Can you feel anything happening?

-No.

-Can you see that? You've unlinked them.

Now Lewis has unlinked them! It gets better!

I'm going to show you what this looks like

without you covering the bands with your fingers.

So if I do it slowly like this and just tap...

one...two...

three.

You can see the band is completely linked together.

-What?

-How did she do that? Can I get another rewind?

One...two...three.

You can see the band is completely linked together.

-What?

-And there you go, Emily.

-You can keep that as a souvenir.

-That's impossible!

Really cool. It looked like it was going to be impossible,

but then when she just did that, it was just really amazing.

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 move in a bit closer... Watch the cat, remember last time?

All right, now follow along with Fergus.

His style is playful, his hands are skilful and his hair is awful.

But ignore that, just listen in and get involved.

We're going to do something amazing with these colours.

Start by placing your finger

on any of the colours in the left hand column.

Now spell out the colour you have chosen,

moving one space for each letter.

You can move up, down, left or right, but not diagonally.

For example, if you'd chosen black you'd move your finger five spaces.

B...L...

A...C...

K.

So spell your colour now.

I don't think you're on white, so we'll remove that.

Now move your finger five spaces.

You can only move to a colour, not to an empty space.

Just like before, though, you can move up, down, left or right.

Remember, move five spaces now.

That's great. OK.

So you're not on yellow or blue. We'll get rid of those.

Now move three spaces.

Again, up or down, left or right.

Hmm, you're not on black or brown, so we'll remove them.

I'd like you to move five more spaces.

OK, you're not on purple, are you?

We can get rid of that one.

Finally move one space.

All done?

So you started on a colour and you moved to a random location,

but I know you're on the colour orange.

I'm on orange! Did it work for you?

Have you ever said, "How did he do that?"

Yes, I have.

Every week, we are bringing you a chart

of the magic movers and shakers.

We are calling said chart Wannabe Wizards.

I've got my comfy chair.

I've got my trusty laptop.

And I've got a massive ball of cheesy puffs.

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 will be choosing my five favourite wannabe wizards

and showing them to you guys.

Number five this time is my man Harry from Billericay

with some crazy card skills.

See what I mean? A deck and nice effects.

It gets better, though! Keep your eye on the ace of spades,

and not on his bare feet. Oh, glad it's not smellovision.

Boom, it's the ten of hearts! But where did the ace go?

That's it in the middle. Awesome.

It's back in the middle and the ten of hearts is still on top.

Quick magic click and now the ace is on top, and guess what?

Yeah, the ten's in the middle.

Harry, you're showing off. Here's something completely different.

It's Sammy from Stanmore. He might be in his back garden

but he's so street with that hat and sick yo-yo moves.

Yeah, I know, strictly speaking, it's not magic

and he's not got the patter, but he lets his quick hands

and his yo-yo do the talking.

All I could ever do with a yo-yo was walk the dog, so I am impressed.

Watch this with the string.

If that was me, I'd get it knotted right up.

Nice catch. He hasn't caught number three. It's Evan from Harrow.

He's going to have you in total suspense.

He's picked up some rubbish - it's an old receipt.

The trick coming up is so good you won't want a refund.

He's scrunching it back up,

but he's not going to put it in that wheelie bin behind him,

oh, no. This scrap of paper is about to be recycled into a magic trick.

Get ready, here comes the good bit.

He's putting his spell on it.

Whoa, it's floating in mid-air!

Do you think you know how he does it?

Think again. Watch this. I love this bit. Here we go.

And once more for luck.

This is a kind of floater I don't mind seeing.

Just ahead on points it's Callum from Ibsley.

He's got a pen trick that draws me right in.

OK, watch the point of the pen. Just watch it, watch the point.

Watch the point of the pen, because if I turn it like this,

-it's pointless.

-Wow, the pen has swapped ends.

You've got to follow that. It's underneath the cap.

-Where is it?

-It's still there.

Wrong, it's not on this side, it's over here.

-Cool. Even he finds it funny.

-It's on this side?

-Yep.

-You'll want to pay attention. Where is it? This side?

-Yep.

-What? You said this side.

-No, the other side.

What do you mean, it's on this side? You've got to make your mind up,

-I'm trying to help you.

-Sorry, I'm trying!

You've got to watch it - it's going under the cap,

under the cap, watch, watch, watch. It's under the cap.

It's not under the cap.

Whoa, this pen trick is really leaving its mark.

But it's not the end,

he's going to cap it all with one last switcheroo.

I'm just going to give it a shake...

-and it jumps to the bottom.

-Top trick.

Who's my favourite, though? I'm not going to tell you yet,

not before I put on my funny chart show voice.

At five, it's Harry the barefoot conjuror.

Spinning higher up the chart at four, it's Sammy.

Floating even higher still, it's Evan.

And the menace with the pen is at number two, it's Callum.

Unless you know where to look, right?

Out of the tons of wannabe wizards, my top one this time was...

Benjy from London with a card trick that's so ace, it's four aces.

I'm going to get the first joker,

put it on the bottom of the pile with the other three jokers

and then all I have to do is just shake and I get an ace.

Whoa, he made that into an ace right in front of our eyes!

-But how? What a joker.

-The other three jokers...

He's changed one joker to an ace, but he's not stopping there,

-he's about to do another three.

-Just like that. Flick. I get...

Whoa, the second joker changed to the ace of spades

-with a mere flick of his fingers!

-So I get this joker...

-OK, now time for the last two.

-And just with a shake...

Whoa, you see that? The third joker became an ace with a nifty shake.

And the final joker - there's a twist. Literally.

I get the ace of hearts.

It's the ace of hearts and I heart that trick.

Can't wait until next time for more Wannabe Wizards.

It's time now, though, for a bit of classy magic from me.

Yes, the moment you've all been waiting for - thimble magic.

MOBILE RINGS

Hello, Mum? look. I'm in the middle of a trick.

Have I seen your red thimble? No.

You're darning my socks?

Sorry, gang, here's what's coming up.

Have you worked out the secret to James' challenge?

If you haven't got a pencil and playing cards, go and get them now.

Go on, hurry! And watch what happens when Katherine

goes undercover in another school.

Could it be your class? Could your supply teacher be magic?

In Undercover Magic, we hide cameras in all sorts of places.

Our magicians play tricks on members of the public

who don't know they're being filmed.

Fergus is on this park bench to play a trick on Ludo and Esme.

They're sitting on the park bench opposite Fergus

and they've been set up by their mum.

They have no idea what's about to happen.

Guys, excuse me, sorry, what do you make the time?

It's just after quarter to one.

I've been waiting for a friend for about 25 minutes

and I made a packed lunch and everything,

gone to all this effort, and then he doesn't turn up.

I think I'll just start without him, to be honest.

Fergus has told them a story and got their attention

and now he's about to have a picnic on his own,

but it's a picnic like no other.

Keep your eyes on the lunch box,

can't be room in there for many sandwiches.

A cup of tea? Now, I wouldn't have expected that.

Excuse me, you haven't got any milk, have you?

-Hang on a minute.

-No?

-No, sorry.

My mistake, sorry. I did pack some.

I'm just so forgetful at the moment.

He's got them amused.

He's really grabbed their attention with that tumbler,

but they haven't tumbled his trick.

A proper teddy bear's picnic but it's not over yet.

This lunch box is like the TARDIS!

I think I forgot a few things.

He's got a full-on cream tea in there - jam, scones, the works.

Nice touch, Fergus.

Do you guys want any, or you all right?

Ludo can't quite believe it, but it's about to step up a gear.

How does he fit a big jug of OJ in there?!

Exactly, mate, how?

Surely that's all, folks? No, there's a flask.

Missing something.

And a vase.

And a huge flower to top it all off. They can't believe it!

Perfect.

First he was just taking out tea cups.

I was like, "You could actually fit cups in there."

But then he took out the orange juice and the vase.

I was like, "What? This is just weird. How does he do that?"

How indeed?

It's the moment you've been waiting for -

a chance for you to learn how to fool your friends.

Me and James challenged you to lift six cards using a pencil.

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

Maybe you think it works by poking the pencil through the cards.

Nah. Do you use a magnet?

No way.

How about some glue?

Come on!

You rest one card on each side of the pencil,

leaving a small gap between them,

and one on top of those cards crossways.

And then the same again on the other side.

Then you put the other cards on top again.

Lift it up. Gently does it.

Did you get it?

Are you amazing already?

Now you've got something to show off with when it's play time.

Now it's time for Katherine to fool another unsuspecting class.

She's about to go to another school.

She's going undercover as a supply teacher to do an incredible trick.

Will it be your school? Will it be your class?

Let's find out.

These Year Six pupils think they're coming in for a normal lesson,

but they're wrong. Katherine is far from normal.

The classroom's been planted with hidden cameras

and she's got a trick that will really grow on them very quickly.

Today what we're going to be learning about is sustainability.

The food that we eat every day

and the paper you write on at school

all needs to be replaced, and that is sustainability.

That's when we replace the resources we have so we don't run out.

That's true enough, but she's about to lead them up the garden path.

When I was planning this lesson, I had a look online

and what I found was a very interesting article.

And it was describing something called speed grow powder.

There's no such thing as speed grow powder, it's just part of the trick.

I sent an e-mail and they very kindly sent me over a sample of it,

which I've got here.

These girls haven't seen anything like it.

Now, yesterday, I tried this out at home with a sunflower seed

and I put the sunflower seed

into my airing cupboard with the powder on top

and I left it for only a few moments,

and when I opened up the cupboard door again

I could actually see a fully grown, tall sunflower.

A tall story more like, but they don't suspect a thing.

Obviously, I couldn't bring in my airing cupboard

so I had to find a cupboard in your storage room,

which will do fine and block out all the light.

So I'll just pop the seed in the soil,

and sprinkle some of the speed grow powder on top.

And if we open up the front of the cupboard

and place the pot inside,

we should only really need to leave it for a few moments...

before we see some sort of result.

So let's close the door.

Now, it's very important that no light gets in there

because otherwise the powder won't work. But as I said,

it works really, really quickly,

so I imagine we've probably waited enough time already.

Let's have a look and see what the results are.

I'll just take off the door.

I can't wait for this - the class are about to be blown away.

Look inside. Wow, look at that! CLASS GASPS

Whoa, the seed has grown into a plant in no time at all!

I can't "beleaf" it!

That's grown about...

what would take generally about four weeks in about ten seconds.

OK, so let's put it back in again.

It's already an incredible trick but will it plant the seed of doubt

into the class' head about her magical identity?

See how much it grows again.

Seal up the front of the door.

Now, has anyone ever heard of fertiliser before?

You have. And who knows what it does? Yes.

It does, yeah, yes.

Remember, don't play with fertiliser at home.

It's supposed to help stuff grow, exactly.

And this is exactly what the powder does,

but it does it much more effectively and much faster.

So let's have a look and see if it's worked again.

Open up the front of the door and if we have a look...

ALL: Wow!

Big plant, big reaction!

"Tree" cheers for Katherine, or some other bad plant-related pun.

And what I also brought with me today -

I had a packet of vegetable seeds at home

and I grabbed one randomly this morning.

Now, I'm not sure what vegetable it is,

but I thought we could have an attempt at growing it

with this speed grow powder. So if I just pop the seed in there.

She's going to do vegetables now.

That's a "turnip" for the books. They get worse.

And inside like that.

We should find that hopefully it grows quickly.

Does anyone want to guess what vegetable they might think...?

Maybe an aubergine, maybe a cantaloupe.

You think it might be a potato? And yes.

-A yam?

-Tomato?

OK, and what do you think it might be?

A prickly pear, perhaps?

A strawberry? You think it might be a fruit?

OK, well, I think that's long enough. Let's have a look and see...

what vegetable we've got. Let's have a look.

Oh, look at that! CLASS GASPS

Whoa! This seed became a carrot in seconds. Amazing stuff.

We've grown a carrot.

It's time for our magic supply teacher

to let them all in on the trick.

Do you want to know a secret?

ALL: Yes.

The secret is, I'm not a real teacher.

ALL GASP

And that was actually a magic trick.

And if you look over there in that corner, that's a camera,

that's a camera, and over there, that's a camera.

Because you're all being filmed right now for a new CBBC magic show.

ALL SCREAM EXCITEDLY

ALL CHATTER EXCITEDLY

She did it. Katherine's brilliant quick-growing trick

has totally fooled the class.

First she turned a seed into a plant in seconds.

And, wow, look at that. ALL: Oh!

We just saw a leaf. And it just came out of nowhere.

Then she made it grow into a flower.

ALL: Whoa.

After 20 seconds, it actually worked, and I was like,

"What? How is that happening?"

And then she turned a seed into a carrot in no time at all.

We've grown a carrot.

I don't know what I thought - I was just completely wordless,

and it was really amazing.

Katherine pulled it off.

The class had no idea she was a magician.

We totally got them and they loved it.

See you guys next week, but remember,

if your teacher suddenly starts working wonders,

you may need to shout, "Help! My supply teacher is magic!"

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