Gillian McElvogue - Headteacher, SENCO, Designated Safeguarding Lead and Class Teacher

Gillian has been in education for over 30 years, teaching and managing across nursery, primary and secondary settings both in Shetland and overseas.  Before moving to Fellview, Gillian was working in post-conflict zones as Education and Training Manager for the charity United World Schools. She says that setting up a Secondary and Early Years department in the primary school she managed in Sri Lanka, and training teachers in the remote villages of North Eastern Cambodia, enabled her to share her passion for creative, outdoor learning and children’s rights to an education, which she has continued as Headteacher at Fellview. 

When not at Fellview you’ll find Gillian in her allotment, garden or kitchen, laughing with family and friends, planning her next travels, and, as a qualified children’s and Yin yoga teacher, finding time to immerse herself in a practice she has loved for over 30 years.

Alex Irving, Key Stage 2 Teacher

Alex has been a teacher for nearly fifteen years. Most of her experience has been in Cumbrian primary schools, with additional training in Spain and France. She holds a BSc from Aston University, Birmingham, and a PGCE with French specialism from St Martin’s College, Lancaster. She joined Fellview as a peripatetic French teacher before starting her general teaching role in September 2021. Her additional responsibilities include science and design technology. Outside school, Alex's two little girls keep her very busy. She also loves to run, dance and play tennis as well as read, cook and paint. 

Ellen Jardine - Reception/Key Stage 1 Class Teacher

Ellen has a History degree from the University of Edinburgh and a PGCE from the University of Cumbria. Ellen started her teaching career at Fellview in November 2020. She is keen to promote music in school and runs the school choir ‘Songsters’. Ellen is the Creative Arts lead in school. In her spare time she enjoys spending time with friends and family, playing tennis and she has recently taken up paddle boarding. 

Mike Dunne - Outdoor, Creative Arts Leader and School Caretaker

Mike is an artist and writer who bases a lot of his work in the mountainous and coastal environments of Cumbria. At Fellview he aims to teach the pupils a variety of artistic techniques not traditionally found in the classroom such as larger-scale sculpture and stone-carving.

He has a degree in Outdoor Leadership from the University of Cumbria and a background in abstract painting and sculpture. He climbs, kayaks and surfs; with a focus on the latter. The bigger the waves, the better. Mike has a wife and son and a blind rescue dog called Pepper.