Cocos2d patterns for simple texture management

I'd like to simplify the way I preload image resources in my Cocos2d based iOS apps. I've created a small object the just wraps a few of CCTextureCache's methods. It looks like this:

@interface TextureHelper : NSObject
+ (void) preloadTextures;
+ (CCTexture2D *) textureForImageNamed:(NSString *) imageName;
@end

@implementation TextureHelper
+ (CCTexture2D *) textureForImageNamed:(NSString *) imageName {

    return [[CCTextureCache sharedTextureCache] textureForKey:imageName];
}

+ (void) preloadTextures {
    // or could read from a directory...
    NSArray *imageNames = @[
    @"myImage1.png",
    @"myImage2.png"
    ];


    for (NSString *imageName in imageNames)
        [[CCTextureCache sharedTextureCache] addImage:imageName];
}
@end

The goal is to preload all images at start-up. Then during game play any sprites created on the fly won't cause images to be read from disk. What are some other more common and/or more effective patterns for achieving this?