Meet The Team.

Anne Sheldon

Originally from South Africa, Anne Sheldon has over thirty five years experience in early years education. She is a qualified Early Years Teacher and holds a Master’s Degree in Education. She worked her way up from being a nursery nurse to holding senior positions in both large and small childcare companies. She has previously been Operations Director of a large UK provider of day care. In addition Anne has held a Senior Post at a Further Education College where she was involved in training nursery staff. She set up and managed an NVQ Assessment Centre that was responsible for training and supporting staff in the work place to gain qualifications in both the Early Years and Care Sectors. This gave her a real understanding of the importance of the role of staff training and motivation to the success of any nursery.

Anne has first – hand experience of all levels of working in a nursery and knows how demanding it is to be responsible to care for, and educate, preschool children. She understands the importance of children learning in environments where they feel secure and through activities that are age appropriate, challenging, stimulating, fun and exciting. Anne is a mother of two grown up daughters who both have been successful in their own fields. She is now a grandmother of a four year old, who attends a full day care nursery and so is living through the experience again by proxy.

She has always been committed to providing the highest possible quality of care and education in her nurseries; the same care and education she wanted for her own daughters, and now her grand- daughter. Anne has always placed children at the centre of all her decisions. She is motivated by seeing children grow, develop, learn and thrive in the nurseries she has run and supported. She understands the importance for parents of being able to leave their children in our care with the peace of mind that they will be well cared for in a warm, intellectually stimulating and loving environment.

Hannah Trampleasure

Prior to joining the Muswell Hill team, Hannah, an experienced Principal, was based at our  Winchmore Hill Preschool where she served as both Vice Principal and then Principal for over a year. It had always been Hannah’s desire to open the Muswell Hill Preschool, having grown up and lived in Muswell Hill so it was like coming home for Hannah when she moved over to help set up the nursery.

Hannah brings a wealth of experience to her role having worked in the childcare sector since qualifying with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Hannah continued her professional development completing an Early Years Initial Teacher training programme more recently.

She begun her early years career as an art teacher, teaching children from 3 months to five years old and has a real passion for the arts. Hannah believes the huge importance of teaching the arts in early years widens children’s interests and promotes their development in all areas of the curriculum.

Over the past few years, Hannah has worked with Middlesex University and Harringay Early Years Team to train early years practitioners in teaching visual arts to under 5’s and has been instrumental in leading on training at Muswell Hill.

Since stepping into a management role, Hannah has worked hard to inject her love for the arts into each setting she has worked at and strives to continue doing so alongside her other management duties.

Chloe O Donavan

Chloe joined our team in December 2019 and whilst waiting for the opening of The Muswell Hill Preschool was inducted at one of our other nurseries. She is a Level 3 qualified Early Years practitioner with over 9 years experience in a wide range of early years settings . She has worked her way up over that time with increasing responsibilities and leadership roles.

Chloe is  completing her Foundation Degree in Early Years  at Hertfordshire University, 

She is  passionate about working with young people to help shape and develop their full potential and  believes  high quality early years provision is characterised by excellent planning linked to children’s individual  needs. She prioritizes   building secure, safe relationships based on trust and consistency and uses  best practice as a basis  to ensure children`s emotional and social development are at the core of all learning experiences.She has always been inspired by her Mum who is an executive headteacher Chloe hopes to  follow  in her footsteps in the future.

This is Chloe’s first role as a Vice Principal and she is enjoying having the opportunity to lead a whole nursery team alongside Hannah and help steer the course of our brand new nursery.

In her spare time Chloe enjoys spending time with her family, and travelling to different countries. She also enjoy walking and attending spin classes.