Year of Establishment: 01-06- 1976
Registration Number : Udupi Jilla Panchayath B.E.O Udupi South
Range No: G 2: Nondani: 3/17-18 Dated: 19-05- 2017
Present Strength : 99
Ursuline Franciscan sisters opted to serve the people of Thottam in the year 1976, with an objective to provide quality education to the local children. A play school was started then in the old Church building with 36 students on its Roll. There were constant variations in the number of students in the ensuing years. In 2005 Sr. Emma Vas was given the responsibility of this play school. In the year 2007 Sr. Lilly Dias succeeded her and put an end to its way of functioning and ushered in new systems.
Sr Lilly Dias decided to have a building for the play school. She knocked on the doors of the Government officials for financial aid. She also approached people of good will of Thottam and the Provincial Superior of Mangalore Province and built a beautiful building in the year 2009 for the tiny tot, which was inaugurated on December 22. A beautiful play park was built. Sr. Vijaya D’Souza who joined as headmistress after Sr. Lilly Dias continued the good work. Sr. Eulalia Monterio a person with qualities of teaching flowing in her veins and a National Level Best Teacher Awardee in the year 1991 took up the charge of the Institution in 2010. In the year 2011-12 she built a small stage and an office room.
Sr Laveena Mariya D’Souza became the Headmistress of the play Home in 2014. In the year 2017 play Home was converted into St. Ann’s pre Primary School. At present there are 99 Students in St. Ann’s Pre Primary School and has become the apple of an eye of the people of Thottam.