page_title: Tasker Milward Voluntary Controlled School
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Tasker Milward Voluntary Controlled School / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Tasker's Schools, Tower Hill, Haverfordwest The Tasker Charity was set up by Mrs Mary Tasker by her will dated 1684, funding Tasker's Charity School. The present school is presumably the Tasker-Milward School in Portfield.
context_page_description: Tasker Milward Voluntary Controlled School was a secondary school in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, that taught through the medium of English. It had 750 students on roll as of 2016, which is significantly fewer than in 2009 when 1,100 were on roll. It was ranked red by the Welsh government categorisation scheme in 2015, but made considerable improvements in 2016.). The Sixth Form was a member of the "Haverfordwest federation", which linked it with Sir Thomas Picton School and Pembrokeshire College. The school closed in 2018 when it merged with Sir Thomas Picton School to form Haverfordwest High VC School.
context_section_description: Tasker-Milward School was created in 1978 after the closure of two separate schools, the Haverfordwest Grammar School and Tasker's School for Girls.
  Haverfordwest Grammar School was founded by no later than 1488. Thomas Lloyd, of Cilciffeth near Llanychaer, endowed the school with property in his will dated 22 November 1612. This included farms, which earned a rental income, enabling the school to be free. The school also benefited from the will of John Milward in 1654, who also bequeathed to King's Grammar School, Birmingham. The grammar school was a boarding school until it moved to new premises in 1965. It was located where the town's library stands today. It was also, between 1938 and 1958, a Public School, its headmaster RS Lang being a member of the Headmasters' Conference
  Tasker's Charity School was established by the Tasker Charity, which was set up by Mary Tasker (previously Miss Howard/Hayward, of 1 Flether Hill, Rudbaxton) in her will dated 1684, to educate poor children of both sexes, although it later became a school for girls. The old school buildings have since been turned into flats.
  Tasker's School for Girls and Haverfordwest Grammar School ceased to exist in 1978, and pupils transferred to the new Tasker-Milward school.
  Mrs M Haynes. became headteacher in September 2007. Following her departure, Mrs H Lewis became acting headteacher with effect from June 2014.
  Due to budget concerns from Pembrokeshire County Council in addition to the underperforming GCSE and A Level results from both schools over a period of a few years, the decision was made to merge Tasker Milward V.C. School and Sir Thomas Picton School into a new School, Haverfordwest High VC School, using the Tasker site (now known as the Portfield Campus) for lower School and the Sir Thomas Picton site (now known as the Prendergast campus) for upper school and Sixth form use, in addition with a completely new uniform consisting of ties and blazers, a contrast from what both schools uniforms were, which were polo tops and jumpers. Both Tasker Milward V.C. School and Sir Thomas Picton School ceased to exist in August 2018 and the new combined school opened in September 2018.
caption: The old building of Tasker's School for Girls, Tower Hill, Haverfordwest.
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