Lucy,
MY dd goes to an ABC childcare centre and is doing her kindergarten year there this year (and was also in the same room last year although she was not quite kinder age). A few other kids we know that go to different ABC centres sing it too, so must be the ABC curriculum (?sp) They started learning the letterland song last year and certainly when she first learnt it, it was just as a "song" but a few months ago she actually connected that the letters she was singing about did connect with a letter in a word! I was really pleased when the connection happened. she is 5 tomorrow, and when we did the school tours early this year, I did not see any sign of it, so I don't think the state schools in victoria use it. Does anyone know?
She loves the computer games they have at ABC to support it and I have found a magazine which she rally loved and I thought was fun and a card matching game. I would love to hear some "professionals" opinion of it but it seems to be doing a good job with my dd.