Tricky Business Our School

Today, our school

gets down to business.

Two classes,

one financial fight to the top.

Calendars for £1.

Women with a pram.

She walked past us earlier.

For two best friends,

will this be a chance to show

their skill with numbers...

We're the number one team.

..or will their behaviour in class

divide them?

You know the teachers

will separate you, right?

Find out in their - I mean,

in OUR School.

Meet our new Year Seven.

Sick bucket.

It's the most important school year

of their life so far.

They're starting here together.

That level of noise,

absolutely disgusting.

This has seen better days.

You stink, sir.

CBBC have filled the entire place

with cameras,

so you'll get to watch Year Seven

every step of the way.

Yeah.

Hello, I'm Mr Jones.

I'm a maths teacher at Our School

and every time you're here,

I'm going to be here too.

Right now, I'm late for a lesson.

Excuse me.

Come on in.

# Our School. #

Boom! Mic drop.

Numbers make the world go round.

One school plus 1,044 students

multiplied by 78 awesome teachers

equals...

Yeah, 81,510.

I was about to say that.

You may have guessed this,

but I love maths.

2 take away 9,

would you get 7x?

No!

Well, not bad maths.

I hate bad maths.

I've got a new project for Year

Seven that's going to show them

just how amazing numbers can be.

We are going to build a business,

all right?

So the idea of this, then, is...

Sir, why does it say Beyonce?

It says finance, finance.

Never mind!

The name of that says finance.

Not Beyonce.

I know, but it looks like Beyonce

from here, because...

A good business plan

always needs Beyonce.

As a class, you have got £100,

all right?

Now with that money, we are going to

make some products

and we're going to have a big stall

and the point of it is to have

your group on one side,

my other Year Seven groups

on the other side

and to see which group

can make the most profit.

And it's not just any stall.

My two classes will be selling to

the public in one of the UK's

biggest shopping centres,

and every penny we raise is going to

the Year Seven charity,

the Memusi School in Kenya.

We need to make sure

we've got lots of ideas,

with things that sell for Beyonce.

Go!

So, we need to do cakes.

Everybody loves cakes.

Normal cakes, chocolate cakes.

Chocolate fudge cake.

Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You could, like, sell sweets,

ice cream, if it's a hot day.

Maybe some smoothies.

We can do badges, badges.

Loom bands for 50p.

Hair cutting. Salon.

'There is no way you are touching

my beautiful hair.'

Let's call this class the Blue Team.

My other class,

let's call them the Red Team.

I've given them the same brief...

The more ideas we get, the better.

..and they're busy brainstorming.

Books.

Books!

Baubles.

How can we make baubles?

Books!

Trish, we'll have, like,

a tea and coffee stall?

A tea and coffee stall just for

people. Just for adults.

Because adults like tea and coffee.

Books, anyone?

Yes!

You know what,

there are two students

who I reckon will be fantastic

at this.

Dollar, dollar. Dollar, dollar.

Ching ching.

Meet Ibraheem and Fareed.

These lads have bags of energy.

I'd describe myself...

Blinging.

I would describe myself...

Boring.

Not really boring.

Fareed, look at the state of you.

Sort yourself out.

He's not a pretty sight, is it?

It's a sick sight.

When they put their minds to it,

these boys are naturals

with the mighty maths.

Ten times ten, divided by two,

add ten,

add two, add one.

63.

It's 63.

Yes!

63.

63. Well followed.

If you give me a sum,

bam, bam, bam, bam.

Your two maths today

was like lightning.

Yeah? Do you like maths?

Yeah. Favourite subject.

Favourite subject, good.

If you have me, I'll make it

your favourite subject even more.

You need maths for every single job

in the world.

Two boys after my own heart.

Fareed and Ibraheem's friendship

goes way back.

Ibraheem is my best mate.

He lives across the road from me.

I've known him

since I was in Year Two.

He's like a brother to me.

A friend should be like

really close to you

and that's Fareed

that's really close to me.

Hi!

What's up?

Want to go to

the park?

Sure.

He's very, very, very, very

and I mean very,

cheeky with me.

Come here, then.

Straight back to me.

Ahh!

He annoys me like in a good way.

Friendships can change a lot

in Year Seven,

but I reckon these two

will stick together.

I keep thinking that you're maybe

going to get different friends.

I do have friends. Not best friends.

Fareed will always be

my best friend.

I promise I will always be friends.

Right.

I think me and Ibraheem will be

friends for ever and ever and ever.

I hope that's going to happen.

It's brilliant having a best mate!

But at school, these boys

aren't always focused.

It's the last lesson of the day

and the whole class seems

pretty restless.

Right, Fareed. Three, two,

one.

Excuse me, there should be

absolute silence.

OK, can you move yourself forward?

If you're chatting a second time

with Fareed, then you're going to

be moved.

Huh?!

No.

What?

Stop.

Why are you bringing me into it?

OK, Cos you weren't facing

this way, Fareed.

Yes, I was!

Excuse me! Don't answer back!

And I wasn't talking! I don't care!

Right. Wait outside, please.

You are not talking to members of

staff like that in this school.

It's very, very rude.

Then don't

bring me into something I didn't do.

Hopefully, he's the last person who

does anything like that this lesson.

Ibraheem, eyes this way.

Get out of here, man.

There should be absolutely

no talking!

Not to be outdone,

Ibraheem's chatting now.

Right, there should be zero people

talking right now.

Why is your head small?

So what did I do?

You're talking.

I wasn't talking!

OK, now you're answering back,

Ibraheem.

I wasn't talking.

OK, what could potentially, what

could happen to the rainforest?

WHISPERS:

Why'd we have to have

this teacher?

OK, why?

STUDENT:

Because...

IBRAHEEM WHISPERS INDISTINCTLY

GIRL:

Huh?

Just, hold on. Ibraheem,

I'm going to ask you to leave.

You're on your C-3 now. Third time.

Sir, but she was talking to me!

No, no, don't argue.

Sir, I was talking as well.

Off you

go. I'll put you in as C-1.

Why do we have to have you

as a teacher?

OK, thank you Ibraheem, off you go.

Yeah, you're welcome.

When you're angry, you lose control.

And then when I lose control

then situations like this happen

when you get a C-3 or a C-2.

Ibraheem is meant to be waiting

outside the class.

But he seems to have other ideas.

I was walking around

next to the hall. I was bored.

What is this? Ibraheem on tour?

Mate, you're not supposed to

be here.

I should have stayed

where the class was.

Or there.

And not here either.

Can't wander the corridors

in lesson time for long

before you'll get spotted.

And Mr Shabir comes out into

the hall, I was like...uh-oh.

Ibraheem, why are you out of your

lesson?

Mr Webb kicked me out.

He didn't tell me where to go,

he just said get out.

I'm sure that's not an accurate

description of why you're not

in your lesson.

No, because he gave me...

Sir, he said get out.

That's it, that's all he said.

Said get out.

So what we'll do,

I'll yellow park you now

cos we're not going to

disturb that lesson

and we don't have the time for me

to take you back and have this

discussion now during your

geography lesson.

And then at three o'clock

we'll come back

and have this conversation

with Mr Webb.

And you can sit in

this classroom here.

So, it's three o'clock, the lads are

meant to be back here for detention.

Anyone seen Fareed and Ibraheem?

You got detention?

I'm not going.

I-I wasn't even talking!

Are, are you going to go

to detention?

No.

Boys? You seem to be heading

in the wrong direction.

Hang on, they're going home!

That is the wrong choice, lads.

You can't just skip detention.

The next morning in form, things

are about to get more serious.

Mr Shabir wants a word with

both boys.

Speed up.

You know why we're here.

As if it wasn't bad enough.

Sir, I waited for you yesterday.

I didn't ask you to speak.

I'm not asking you

to explain anything.

I made it very clear to you -

at the end of the day,

you go and speak to Mr Webb.

But at three o'clock,

you made a decision.

And at 20 past three,

when I go to see Mr Webb

to see how this conversation

was and was everything resolved,

what does he tell me?

That you did not arrive.

It was a bad decision.

You should never have left this

building until you've resolved this.

You can see how disappointed I am.

In both of you.

You're going to leave this room

and you're going to write

a letter of apology, how remorseful,

how sorry you are.

I'm going to try and behave better.

I'm not going to, I'm not going

to promise, but...

Well, you're going to try!

Yeah, that's what I said.

Yeah.

I'm going to try.

Well, you have to.

Back on the business project,

I've enlisted a little extra

teacher power.

I went and got us some help.

Art teacher Mr Tippin is here

to help both classes

to create their products.

Off you go.

Hello, Mr Tippin!

Hello!

The Red Team have decided to design

calendars, Christmas cards,

and key rings.

The key to a good design

is just a few colours.

OK.

They're nice colours, they are.

But what about that?

Yeah.

You messed it up already.

No, you haven't messed it up at all.

I'm really proud of that, woohoo!

Look at that! People!

Look at that!

Over in the rival class,

the blue team are hard at work.

They've decided to make badges...

Start with, start with one colour

and gradually go through

the other colours.

..plant pots and mugs.

That looks really cool.

I reckon you

could make it up to about there.

I'm hoping this project will bring

out the best in Ibraheem and Fareed.

I'm so excited about this business

cos it's a lifetime opportunity,

in a way.

No, it's not.

In a way.

No.

In a way.

No.

In a way.

No.

In a way.

No.

Yeah.

Come on, Fareed. I know you care.

I feel happy about this project

cos me and Ibraheem,

when we're older

we were hoping to open a business

and that business is a restaurant.

You're going to need maths for that.

But these boys aren't going to open

any restaurant

if they can't stay out of trouble.

Stop! Shut up!

I have no idea...

Shut up and turn around!

Ibraheem's getting noisy again.

Just sit there a minute.

What's wrong? You're not having

a good day?

No.

Here's an idea, all right?

Cos I think it's probably going to

help you out.

Why don't you sit somewhere where

you're just sat on your own

and you could just get on with your

work, yeah? All right.

Both Ibraheem and Fareed are finding

themselves in trouble these days.

Come on in, guys. Let's take a seat.

And word has got back to

their form tutor Mr Shaw.

What do you think is the reason

I've had to pull you out of form?

To have a chat to you about?

Behaviour.

Behaviour?

You guys, I know are great pals

and I know that when you're doing

work together,

you can do great work.

I've seen you.

But, I've had so many reports back

to me... You're watching, right?

I've had so many reports back,

your names keep popping up.

You guys have got to

watch yourselves, OK?

Cos I know you guys

want to stay together.

And you can bring out the best

in each other.

But I think you can also distract

each other quite a lot too.

Am I wrong?

No.

Nope.

You know the teachers

will separate you, right?

Yeah.

You guys want to

get separated?

No.

No.

But you guys are going to

get separated

unless you can sort yourselves out.

That what you want?

No.

No.

You look pretty sad about that idea,

about being separated.

I would be too if I'd known someone

since Year Two.

What do you think you can actually

do to not get separated?

Behaving. And do less talking.

Talk less. Come on.

Big smiles!

Enjoy the rest of the day.

No crosses, and no C-2s.

Cos I don't want us to be seeing

your parents.

We both want to stay

in the same class,

we don't want to get separated.

Like we're a good team together.

Yeah, I know in a way that we can

work as a team and probably be...

..the best team together.

Yeah. But, we need to change.

Maybe the business project

will show the boys at their best.

We'll see later on when

the two teams go head-to-head.

It's the weekend before the big sale

and Fareed and Ibraheem

have some thinking to do.

For the last two years, they've been

coming to this boxing club.

Touch gloves. Go!

It's a chance to get rid of some of

that extra energy they've got.

Right now, the boys have got a lot

on their minds.

We're getting in trouble these days,

I don't know why.

It's mostly of my attitude

and my behaviour.

Before when I first came to

Our School,

I wasn't, like, one of them kids

who misbehaved.

I was good, I was better than now.

I want that to change.

Cos I want to get somewhere in life.

Come on, lads, you can do this.

You've still got each other, right?

We're tight, like, a rope when you

tie something, it's a knot.

We're like a rope

that's impossible to rip.

Just like this. Never comes off.

It would be a real shame

to see these lads split up,

so they need to show me what they

can do when they work together.

Year Seven have built

their businesses.

It's time to see if they can sell

their products to the public.

Today's the day.

Lots of nerves around here

this morning.

I was worried the most about like

when we ask somebody something,

they just, like, blank us

or they're just rude and say,

"No, no, I don't want to buy

any of your stuff."

First thing, you need to get

customers and make money.

And second thing,

you've got to beat that team.

It's going to be an epic clash

for the cash.

You need a good boss, you need good

customers, you need good employees.

Right. You've made products, right?

Now it's time to sell them.

Most money wins, all right?

Go!

'The teams have got two hours to

battle it out.'

Who can make the most profit?

In the blue corner,

we have Ibraheem, Fareed, Nimra,

Morgan, Gresh,

Mavan, Nermene, and Abdul.

And in the Red corner,

we have Wayne, George,

Finlay, Alishba, Shanazze,

Olivia, Alayah and Roman.

Fareed, Ibraheem, I want to see

some big things from you today.

Today's the day -

I want to make myself proud,

I want to make my mama proud.

Yes! This is mine that I did!

Sick!

This is mine I did!

It looks sick!

But right from the off,

the Blue Team have a problem.

Oh, no!

What?

Oh, miss, this is upside down.

One of the mugs has been printed

upside-down.

So what you're going to do about

that?

Can't sell it.

Well, you can sell it,

you've got to sell everything.

You're going to have to

make something up, aren't you?

What are you going to say to the

people to convince them?

Not sure.

You'd better think of something,

lads,

or you're going to look like

a right pair of mugs.

Over on the Red Team,

things seem a little disorganised.

I need you to move, please.

Right, can we be listening?

At the moment, I'm seeing

slight organised chaos, right?

I think we need a team leader.

George!

To lead our mess.

Yeah!

George!

Can we agree with George?

Right, George.

So, we need someone on counters,

someone on cards.

Branch out now, get selling. Yeah.

So, George is head of Reds

and Morgan is the boss of the Blues.

We need to knuckle down

and work together

because we need to beat them!

She was like, "Come on, people!"

£1.50 for the mugs!

Bossing everybody around

in a good way.

Let's sell, sell, sell!

ALL:

One, two, three, woo!

And they're off!

Where are those customers?

Who shall we go to?

I don't know.

Let's go to that person!

Casually, just casually walk!

Excuse me?

Oh, well, try again!

OK, doesn't look like

they want to come.

This is harder than it looks.

I thought it would just be

go to a person, blah, blah, blah,

go to our shop, go to shop, bye.

But it's not.

It's like go to a person,

"Oh, yeah, we'll come back after.

"Oh, yeah, we'll come back after,"

and you're like...

Meanwhile, Wayne and Finlay are

drumming up business for the Reds.

Their plan, use a bit of charm.

Excuse me?

Have you had a nice day today?

Have you had a nice day today?

So far, we've only just arrived.

Oh, we're selling Christmas cards

and calendars and...

For...

You know, all my Christmas

cards are written out,

sorry, ready to post.

No, that's... That's...

Maybe we need some fresh charm.

What we did is we chased some people

and, like,

"Would you like to...?

Can we interest you...?

"Would you like to buy...?

Have you had a nice day?"

Back on the Blue Team.

Women with the pram.

Hello, would you like to

come to our store?

We're selling mugs and badges.

We need to go get people

to come to our store quick.

Oh, they're very nice.

They're all made by us.

How much is it?

It's £1.50.

And that's started a surge of

customers for the Blues.

Thank you.

Ka-ching!

There you go. You can give me

£7 change, please.

There you go.

Thank you! Oh, you are

good at your maths, aren't you?

Totally impressed. They're amazing.

Really smiley, lovely faces.

And I reckon Morgan's got a bit of

a secret weapon in Nimra.

How much, my darling?

Mugs and plant

pots are £1.50.

Thank you.

We kind of had an advantage because

Nimra is, like, so cute.

Here you go!

Well done, sweetheart.

To get the customers,

I tried, like, using a squeakier

voice than I usually have.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Have a good day!

So then they could be like,

"Oh! She's so cute!

"Let's go have a look at

this stall."

And then there is this plant pot

that says,

"Owls will always love you."

Oh, that's lovely!

Right, let's see

how much I've got here.

Back in Red, I reckon Wayne is

the secret weapon round here.

SHOUTS:

Calendars at 50% off,

only 50p now.

Wayne's got a very loud voice that

people down in food court can hear.

Calendars for £1!

IMITATES WAYNE:

Three mugs for 10p!

Or something like that, you're like

from my local butcher's, man.

But the loud approach is working,

the Reds are making money.

We're not doing that bad, actually.

And even getting compliments.

I just wanted to say how

well-behaved and well-mannered

your children are.

Thank you.

And I have got...

Thank you, we appreciate that,

yes, thank you so much.

Thank you, bye-bye.

Warms my heart, that does.

Both teams are doing Our School

proud.

Back with the Blues, it looks like

Fareed and Ibraheem

are in their element.

So we have the mug

that's different colours,

we have cookies on here,

Christmas. We have an arrow.

You are a good salesman,

aren't you?!

'We are sick at selling!'

No, no, no, we are awesome

at selling!

But can Ibraheem take on

the ultimate challenge,

selling the upside-down love mug?

We've done a love one,

it is upside down because...

What?

It is, look.

When you are in love,

you concentrate on that person

and your brain

just goes off and it goes all crazy,

so we thought of doing it

upside-down

because when you are in love

you feel so crazy.

Let's have a look at that one,

that looks good, that one.

I can't believe

what I'm seeing here.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

I did it. I got her to buy

this crazy love upside-down mug.

I never thought I'd do that!

I feel proud.

I feel really proud.

You're a genius, aren't you?

I'm staggered. Well done, mate.

Guys, last five minutes!

Get those last little bits sold, go!

There's five minutes left!

Key rings for 25p!

50% off!

I just started shouting, like -

"50% off! 99% off!"

Come on, Year Seven!

The seconds are ticking away!

So what you're saying is

you want me to have two rings.

If you want, if you want.

They're £1 for one and £1.50 for

two.

Yeah, go on. I'll have two.

Year Seven, last minute! Let's get

those last little bits sold.

Christmas cards for 10p each!

10p for two!

There is just time for

one last sale. Careful, Nimra.

Last minute, quick, quick!

Three...two...one! Stop selling.

You can have the penny.

Thank you!

Phew!

After all that hard work,

we are going to find out who has

made the most profit.

Will it be...

It's been counted.

Double counted - cos she

counted it the first time.

It was very, very close.

At first when I saw their box

and there was notes, just notes,

I was like,

"Yo, they're going to win."

This team, I loved how you went out,

all right,

you took that amongst yourselves to

go out and get customers in.

Wayne, you did an absolute

brilliant job.

You did the majority of stuff

for your team.

I shall raise the goblet of

the winner.

I don't want to look!

The winner...

is...

NIMRA:

Stop it, sir!

..that team.

So, the Blues take it.

The public spent £138.09 on

their product.

Which cost £74 to make,

so that's a profit of £64.09.

The Reds earned £105.91,

having spent £45,

which equals £60.91 profit.

And if we add together

those profits,

it makes a whopping £125

towards our charity.

I love good maths!

And as well as that,

we've seen Ibraheem and Fareed

bring the best out of each other.

I think what makes us good sellers

is our friendship.

Cos without our friendship,

how would we work together?

BOTH: Number one team.

Ibraheem did really good.

He was like,

he sold an upside-down mug.

I think we've come very far

this term, like,

from the beginning to the end.

I'm proud of you.

I'm proud of you.

No, I'm proud of you.

No, I'm proud.

No, I'm proud of you.

No, no, no,

I'm proud of you.

No, no, no, no.

I'm proud of you more.

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

I'm proud of both of us.

Yeah.

I was scared!

..to see how our fundraising

is changing lives.

I don't want to leave.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Hello?

Yeah, I'm being filmed right now.