Ellen Glover, 31, was employed as a finance and administration assistant for Edith Cadbury Nursery School, originally a charity that became a Birmingham maintained nursery in 2014, funded by the local education authority.
Ms Glover had a key to the school safe which contained cash and cheque books to its four bank accounts. Over the 12 months to July 2016, she wrote 30 cheques to herself for a total of £39,500 from a little-used charitable donations account, the court heard.
Her actions first came to light when a bank statement for the account was received in September last year, showing that five unauthorised payments had been made to her.
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