ALLEN O’HALLORAN

• Curriculum Leadership: Deliver high-quality IBDP Theatre and Cambridge IGCSE curricula. Foster rigorous artistic inquiry and push student creative boundaries through these frameworks.
• Production Management: Direct and produce immersive school productions, orchestrating diverse student ensembles, technical crews, and cross-departmental staff.
• Pedagogical Innovation: Design dynamic units fostering student agency, successfully transitioning students from scripted performance to autonomous, devised theatre makers.

• KS4 English Lead: Lead a faculty of 10+ staff delivering Edexcel GCSE Level specifications. Revised planning, procedure and communication practices, with an example being the implementation of rigorous moderation cycles that ensured assessment accuracy and sustained value-added progress in a high-performing department.
• Curriculum Renewal: Promoted a DEI-focused curriculum renewal across KS3 and led collaborative initiatives with Northwestern University Qatar to professionalize student learning.
• Pastoral Leadership: Led 13 staff and the student body (Y7-13) to develop a distinct House identity, designing a vertical leadership structure that empowered student leadership.
• Advanced Mentorship: Guided KS5 and Year 11 students using a systems-based approach to develop self-regulation and an "A-Level Mindset".

• Impact on Attainment: Recognized as a specialist in Cambridge International (CIE) and Edexcel curricula. Secured consistent year-on-year attainment increases and unprecedented student exam success.
• Intervention Success: Designed high-impact interventions for underperforming A-Level students. Key Achievement: Raised a specific student's score from 56/100 (AS) to 96/100 (A-Level) through diagnostic teaching and coaching.
• Holistic Support: KS4/KS5 mentorship, overseeing examination improvement across Edexcel, Cambridge and AQA examination boards.

• School Improvement: Drove English, Drama and PE department transformation by fine-tuning critical systems, promoting community links and maximizing staff skillsets.
• Curriculum Leadership: Led literacy development across KS1-KS3, integrating IPC (International Primary Curriculum) principles to enhance cross-curricular learning and inquiry-based skills.
• Accreditation: Led key department components of the CIS Accreditation process, including policy development and mission statement refinement.

• Established a performing arts academy and repertory troupe.

Delivered the NCEA Levels 1-3 curriculum; guided students to win the regional 'Sheilah Winn Shakespeare' festival. Implemented workshops.

• Collaboratively shaped national policy on 'Drama in Education' for the NCEA framework.