OK, we've just relocated this last month and DD has gone into a new school, Y1. She's been doing jolly phonics at her old school (curly c, kicking k, that stuff). And she's just this last month 'clicked' with reading, so it's going well. However I got a phone call from her new teacher saying she has to do some extra work (worksheets and a pack of flashcards) to catch up (fair enough) as they're using a different scheme, called I think synthetic phonics (???, involves weird orders to do 'Fred talk' on words and a lot of pictures/"rhymes" like 'go up the insect' for C). I can't go into the school for the moment because of an accident, and all the teacher said on the phone was that this scheme had been on the TV recently. Result of life being a wee bit hectic is that I don't actually watch that much telly these days, so second result is I can't understand the worksheets!
Any pointers? What is this scheme called? Is it just jolly phonics with pretty pictures?