Very interesting idea.

I'm not sure about the goto though (despite/because of it being something I learned as a child).

When I used goto it was in the form goto linenumber, but if you're having to create explicit labels to jump to, it would seem easier (to me) to give those labels some explicit structure as loops or functions which doesn't need to be explained at first (they can just act like goto labels) but can be built on later.

e.g. the classic:

    10 print "name"
    20 goto 10

in this scheme becomes

    label start
    print "name"
    goto start

so why not

    loop 
    print name
    restart loop

and then later the label loop could become loop while or loop until or loop with item from list. "restart" makes sense both at the end of a loop and if you wish to continue with the next iteration after a test. Using goto to break out of a loop could be exit loop or continue after loop.

I'm not sure what other uses of "goto" you'd expect at this level beyond restarting or exiting loops. If/then seems to take care of simple code branching until you get to procedures.