Who we are
The staff who work at St Anne’s college nursery are fully qualified, experienced nursery nurses. They hold first-aid certification, DBS clearance, as well as various training certificates (BTEC, CACHE, etc.). Any temporary members of staff have clearance by the agency they work for. We place a great value on training — all staff are encouraged and supported to expand their knowledge through ongoing, annual training courses.
Foundation Degree in Early Years
Diploma in Childcare and Education
Charie has worked in childcare for over 20 years. Her experience includes working in nursery settings as a nursery nurse, as a SEND teaching assistant in a primary school, and as a nanny. Charie previously worked at St Anne’s College Nursery for seven years (2005-2012) and rejoined the nursery in June 2023.
Deputy Manager
Charlotte Vowell
Email: charlotte.vowel@st-annes.ox.ac.uk
CACHE Level 3 Certificate for Children in Education
Charlotte has worked in primary education and childcare 17 years. She has now been at the nursery since 2016.
Charlotte specialises in Special Needs (SEND)
She is also the nursery’s designated safeguarding lead.
Cache Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Workforce ( Early Years Educator)
Pippa has worked in early years settings for almost 10 years, joining St Anne’s in 2024. Her qualifications include a Level 3 Diploma in the Early Years Workforce. Pippa is passionate about making the children in the setting feel happy and content and enjoys getting fully involved in all aspects of children’s learning.
Selina has worked alongside children for at least 30 years. She has worked in various schools and preschools. Selina began work with St Anne’s in 2017.
Selina specialises in communication and language skills.
Karen has over 30 years experience of working in the early years sector, from nursery setting, when her own children were young, to developing a progressive music curriculum and running her own company providing weekly music classes for babies and pre schoolers across Oxfordshire.
Having provided many years of weekly music sessions for St Anne’s Nursery, she now works as a Nursery nurse at St Anne’s. She continues to share her passion of music with the children, and thoroughly enjoys helping to make nursery life a happy, safe environment where the children can all excel.
Nursery Nurse
Stephanie Cottrial
BA in Primary Teaching with QTS
Stephanie has over 25 years experience working in pre-schools, primary schools and domestic settings, beginning her career as a live-in nanny for infants under 3 years old. Stephanie joined St Anne’s in 2024. Stephanie is passionate about the outdoors and championing forest school and she also specialises in early mathematical development.
Additional training among the staff includes
- Promoting positive behaviour
- 12 hour paediatric first aid
- 16 hour outdoor first aid
- Special educational needs
- Equality and diversity
- Manual handling
- Fire training
- Supporting children’s development of speech language and communication
- Problem solving reasoning and numeracy
- British sign language level 2
- Safeguarding
- Key person
- Two year check
- Let’s explore outside
- Observation, assessment and planning
- Y.F.S record keeping
- Supporting children with English as an additional language
- Schemas
- Why do they do that?
- Messy explorations
- Appraisal and staff development
- Using sharp tools at forest school
- Food hygiene
- British sign language level 2