if you dont mind a suggestion, it wasnt too long ago i was student myself n i remember the biggest fault when they started to teach was nothing but theory. even if we did code alot, me n most of the ppl in the class started to feel like "whats the point?, sure i can make my puter write hello world 5000times but what use is that to me?". so i was thinking maybe it'd be better to start with a lang that makes it easier to understand the uses, what i'm talking about is webbased langs like php. php is abit lax with variable declarations n such but it is alot like c++ and if your students already have learned html it would be alot easier for them to see the uses of programming.

last point also, dont even try to have them learn oop right off the bat it'd confuse them alot i imagine..