Ep 5 Racing and Chasing

Mr McMarlow is going to get fired for fighting!! Can the kids save their teacher's career? 

Transcript

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Welcome to the Telling on the Teacher podcast. This episode is called Racing and Chasing. As a teacher at our school who always seems to break the rules telling on the teacher would you Well it was Friday and Jacob and Jamie had arrived at school at about the same time. They were walking in the gate, and Jamie said to Jacob, Hey, race you to the classroom. No fear, said Jacob, your bag hook is closer than mine. Well, first to get to the playground is the winner, said Jamie, and they raced off, zooming to the classroom to put their bags down. Jacob just took the lead and was about to put his bag on the hook and race back, and Jamie put her bag on the hook and was racing back and didn't see that there was somebody walking along the path because she was too busy trying to catch up with Jacob. And Mr McMahon was coming down the path carrying a really tall box with pool noodles sticking out the top. So he couldn't really see where he was going either, and splat Jamie crushed right into Mr McMahlow, and the box fell on the ground, and all the pool noodles fell out. Oh, Mr McMarlow, I'm sorry, said Jamie. I didn't I didn't see you. Oh, it's alright, said Mr McMarlow. I thought you were playing tag with me. Tag, you're it. And then Mr McMurlow raced onto the playground and started running away. Well Jamie jumped up and started chasing Mr McMahlow over the wooden platform, across the flying fox, along the monkey bars. Jamie was really good at the monkey bars, but Mr McMahlow cheated by putting his feet down, which got him a little bit ahead. And because he was a little bit ahead, he decided he would try and climb the rock wall up to the top of the fort. So he climbed the first um handheld and the second handheld, and he got his next foot up and his next foot up, and he was just about to get high enough so that Jamie couldn't tag him when snap! One of the handhelds came off in Mr. McMahlow's hand. Ah cried Mr. McMahlow. And because he didn't have any weight on his foot, he only had one hand and one foot on the wall, and he started to swing like a gate open on the rock climbing wall. Jamie came up and tagged his foot. Tag, she said. Mr McMahlow jumped down, dropped the handheld, and started racing after her. But Jamie, being a clever young lady, ran in all the places that it was hard for grown-ups to get to. And so she was going underneath the swing bridge, and Mr. McMarlow had to try and roll under there and got bark all over his clothes. And then she was zooming over the spider web where there's a whole lot of ropes that were crisscrossed. And Mr. McMahlo found it very hard to get through there. And as he was jumping out of the spider web, the spider web caught his shoe and his shoe fell off. But he didn't care. He just kept on running anyway. And because Jamie was really quite ahead by now, she raced up the ladder to the top of the fort. And at the top of the fort there was a big tunnel slide that goes all the way down. And Jamie was up there and looked down to Mr. McMahlow.

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Mr. McMahlow's in and in. I'm the one with the grin grin grin. Mr. McMahlow's in and in and I am going to win win win.

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McMahlow started climbing up the ladder to the fort, but just as he got to the top and reached out his hand to tag Jamie, she zoomed down the tunnel to the bottom. Well, Mr. McMahlow climbed up too and got into the tunnel and Jamie was at the bottom waiting to run away, watching the tunnel, but nobody came out. Mr McMahlo, where are you? Called Jamie. I'm stuck in the tunnel came an echoey voice. Oh get him out, said Jacob. I'll zoom down really fast and push him out with my feet. From inside the tunnel there was a muffled voice that said something like It's okay. I can get myself out. Well, Mr. McMarlow's head appeared out the tunnel slide out the slide tunnel opening. He was down the bottom where Jamie was, but he was covered in bark and he was sweaty and one of his shoes were off, but he was smiling, and Jamie was so shocked at seeing her teacher looking so messy that she forgot to run away. She just stood there, and Mr. McMahlow reached out and said, Well he was going to say tag, but actually what he said was whew, because Jacob had zoomed down the slide and crashed into him. And then they heard another sound. It was whack, bump, whack, whack. Hudson and Boston had been walking past and they saw all the pool noodles that Mr. McMahlow had dropped. And Hudson picked up a blue one, and Boston picked up a yellow one, and they had started whacking each other with the pool noodles. Mr. McMahon looked over and saw that they were fighting. Now teachers are supposed to say something like, Oi, stop fighting with those pool noodles. But do you think that's what Mr. McMahon said? No. What did he say? He said, Hey, come on, we're missing a pool noodle fight. And he ran over and grabbed a pink one, and Jacob came over and grabbed a green one, and Julia grabbed a purple one, and they all started hitting and whacking and bumping each other's paw noodles, and other kids were coming along and watching, and there was a big group of them, and they were making so many bumps and whacks and bumps and whacks that they didn't hear the sound of some high heels coming down the path. Clop, clop, clop, clop, of course, that was Miss O'Connell the principal. But Mr McMarlow had his back to her. Hudson in Boston saw her coming, and so did the um so did Jacob and Jamie, and they all dropped the pool noodles. But Mr McMarlow was just getting into character as a Spanish sword fighter.

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Hello, my name is Mr McMahlow. You stole my pool noodles. Prepare to get fired, said Miss O'Connell.

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Oh get fired me, said Mr McMarlow. He was shocked. Oh no, he was trying to think quickly. Oh, please don't fire me, Miss O'Connell. Please don't fire me today, because it's assembly day and I have to do my song in assembly, and it's going to be a really, really good one. And if you fire me today, the kids might never hear it. Hmm, said Miss O'Connell. Hmm. Fighting with pool noodles is a very bad example, Mr McMahlow. Well, said Mr McMarlow, with all respect, Miss O'Connell, it was actually Hudson and Boston who were doing it first, so they were the example to me. And what happened to the rock climbing wall? said Miss O'Connell, walking over to the rock climbing wall where one of the handheld pieces was on the ground. Oh, said Mr McMahlow, that was actually really good because I was testing out the rock climbing wall, and when I was testing it out, that one snapped off. And if that had happened when one of the kids were climbing, they could have got really hurt. No, Mr McMahlow, said Miss O'Connell. It broke off because this is the junior student's playground, and you are not a junior student. You are supposed to be a senior teacher. Please do not test it out any more. Oh, sighed Mr McMurlow. Okay, I suppose I could go and climb a tree instead. No, nope, don't do that, said Miss O'Connell. We all remember what happened when you got stuck in the tree. What you should actually do is go and clean yourself up. You've got bark all over you and you're walking around with one shoe. That's not part of the dress code, and it is not how a teacher should be looking. Go and get yourself sorted out, and then you better practice your song. If it's a good one, maybe I won't fire you today. Miss O'Connor clopped back off to the office. That's when the music started playing, and that meant that all the kids had to go to their class. After the roll, Jacob put up his hand. Mr McMarlow, I I think we should practice your song for assembly so you don't get fired. Okay, said Mr McMahlow. But I haven't fully written it yet. Oh no, said Jamie. If if it's not a really good one, you might get fired from Miss O'Connell. Yes, said Mr McMahlow, that that is a um is a bit of a problem. Um I suppose I should start to write it. And he got out his ukulele and tried to think of a good chord to to start on. But he just he just couldn't think of any words. Um Um I just I just can't write songs under all this pressure. It just stops me from my being creative. Oh well we can help you, said Jacob. We'll help you write it. Okay, said Mr McMahlow. Well what are your ideas? We'll all help, said Ed Z. Um and we can include other instruments too. Like what? said Mr. McMahlow. I know, said Hudson. Let's use bucket drums, and then we can all join in and play bucket drums. Yeah, said Sophie, and we could have a dance. Good idea, said Jamie. And Jackie chimed in and she said, We could use the pool noodles for the dance. Have you still got them, Mr McMahlow? And so Jackie and Sophie went and grabbed the pool noodles which are over by the playground and brought them inside. And the kids all started working on their dance and their song for the assembly. Oh, I hope it's gonna be good, said Mr McMahlow. I I'm trusting you with a lot here, you know. Don't worry, said Jamie. We've got this. We're gonna do a chant and a dance and a song, and it's gonna be the best that Miss O'Connell has ever seen. So it was a bit of a tense day with the kids practicing in between their maths and their reading and their writing and a bit of PE as well. But finally it was Friday afternoon, and it was time for the assembly. Everybody was feeling a bit nervous as they walked into the assembly, especially Mr. McMarlow. They gave out all the certificates, and then finally it was time for the song. The kids got their pawn noodles. The kids who were doing the dancing, like Sophie and Jamie and Jackie and Anna, and they held up the pawn noodles so that it was making a point in the very middle. And all the kids who got who were doing the bucket drumming got their bucket drums as well, and were ready to do their performance. It started with a chant while Jamie ran all around the kids with the pool noodles, and then they started whacking them and dragging them along the ground and jumping over the pool noodles, and the bucket drummers were going boom whack, what was that? Boom whack, what was that? Paul noodle fight, car splat. And then they danced around and then they started acting out the chasing and the racing all around the playground. And the bucket drummers changed their beat, and it went something like this. Up the rope down the pole, stomp across the bridge like a hound, run around, climb along the ridge, puff and pent, jump and land, don't lag or sit. Reach out your hand, yell tag your writ. Up the rope down the pole, stomp across the bridge like a hound, run around, climb along the ridge, puff and pent, jump and land, don't lag or sit, reach out your hand, yell tag your writ. And then it's he said faster, and the bucket drummer sped up, and the dancers sped up, and the chase sped up, and the race sped up. Up the rope down the pole, jump across the bridge like a hound, run and round, come along the ridge, puff and pen, jump and land, don't lag or sit, beat chat jump, and you'll tag your writ, up the rope down the pole, jump across the bridge like a hound, run around, come along the ridge, puff and pen, jump and land, don't lag or sit, be changed, you'll tag your pit. And they finished with a big finish and held up the pool noodles and banged on the bucket drums, and everybody in the assembly was chappy, clapping, and cheering, and Miss O'Connell had a big smile on her face and was clapping as well. And then Jamie took the microphone and said, This dance and this chant and this song are all dedicated to Mr McMahlow, who is the teacher in our class, and we would like to ask you, Miss O'Connell, to please not fire our teacher, because we think even though he gets in trouble quite a lot, he is quite a good one. Miss O'Connell walked up to the microphone and took the microphone off Jamie and said, Thank you, room three, for your dance and performance. I have been thinking about this very carefully today. And Mr McMurlow has had a few troubles lately. But since he has got such a wonderful class who help him in so many different ways, I have decided that he will not be fired today. And all the class and all the kids in assembly gave a very big clap. And that is how Room 3 managed to stop Mr. McMurlow from getting fired again. We hope you enjoyed that story. Our next story is going to be about some kids who have to handle a lockdown and a dog who gets into the school and wants to eat the kids' lunches. Join us then for that one. Bye.