Below is my intended course structure for 2023/24. I have shared some rationale for my decisions underneath. Note that this might be liable to change as I figure things out along the way.

Decisions and rationale

• Simplicity: For the first year of the new course, I have erred on the side of simplicity and so will try to avoid the transfer/mixing of individual understandings outside of the subtopic to which they belong. I'm hoping this will facilitate easier tracking of content coverage and less time spent finding and/or creating resources such as unit tests.
• IA practice: At my school, we complete the IA at the end of Year 1 so Reactivity 2.1 (How much?) and Reactivity 2.2 (How fast?) will be covered before touching on any of the bonding units. This is to maximise exposure and practice with IA skills earlier in the course.
• Retrieval practice: I will cover Structure 3.1 (The periodic table) and Structure 2.4 (From models to materials) at the beginning of year 2. These seems like good topics to review much of the content in year 1 and facilitate plenty of retrieval practice after the summer break.