Alex Irving - Middle Juniors, SENDco & Safeguarding Lead

Alex has been a teacher for over 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. Outside school, Alex's two children keep her very busy. She also loves to run and dance as well as read, cook and paint. 

Ellen Jardine - Music 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 teaches music in school and runs the school choir ‘Songsters’.  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. 

All Staff

Hannah Salkeld - Head teacher, Key stage 2 (5,6) class teacher

Alex Irving - Key stage 2 (3,4) class teacher 

Nicola Francis - Key Stage 1 (Year R,1,2) class teacher

Lucy Clark - Nursery Leader and Deputy Safeguarding Lead

Liuda Konovalenko - Teaching Assistant (SEN)

Anne Smith - Teaching Assistant, Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA)

Heather Benson - Teaching Assistant and Higher Level Teaching Assistant (PE)

Michael Dunne - Caretaker, Higher Level Teaching Assistant (ART)

Fawn Chastney - Office Administrator 

Pattie Hogg - School Cook

Amy Meadows - Office Administrator