Tasker Milward Voluntary Controlled School
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Tasker Milward is a secondary school in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, south west Wales. It was founded by Mary Tasker. It has over 1000 students (at last count it was 1174). It has three buildings, Milward Building or "Lower School", where English, Maths, Chemistry, Physics, PE, ICT are taught; the library is also in the Milward Building. Humanities Block or "H Block", where Geography, History and RE are taught ("H Block" was built in 2001), and Tasker Building or "Top School". This is where languages (Welsh, French, Spanish), Biology, PSE (Personal Social Education/ Sex Education), another ICT, Drama, another two English classes, Technology and Art are held. This is also where the Sixth Form area is, which includes a Resource Room, Work Area, and Common Room.
Each year group is divided up into seperate classes or "forms". They are T,A,S,K,E,R and M. This is then put into two groups TASK and ERM.
As of September 2007, the head teacher is Mrs M Haynes.
The Sixth Form is a member of the "federation" which links it with Sir Thomas Picton School and Pembrokeshire College.
The school was formed by the amalgamation in the late 1970s of two former schools: the Haverfordwest Grammar School and Tasker's School for Girls.
Uniform
As of September 2006 winter uniform has been abolished. Winter uniform was white shirt with school tie, black trousers for boys or green trousers/skirt for girls and black shoes. The uniform now has a polo shirt with Tasker Milward logo on instead of shirt and tie.
Heads of Year
Each year has a head of year they as of September 2007 they are as follows:-
Year 7 - Miss E O' Rourke
Year 8 - Mr J Cecil
Year 9 - Mr P Harris
Year 10 - Ms P Latimer (With Ms E Scourfield Temporary head during her absence)
Year 11 - Mrs C Pearce
Sixth Form - Ms M Corp
Sporting
Tasker Milward has a large sports dome, or "The Dome" to the pupils, which is open to the public after school hours. It has two tennis courts and a basketball court, Inside Milward building is a swimming pool. Outside there is a rugby, football and hocky pitches, a cricket pitch and four tennis courts.
Radio Station
Tasker Milward was the first school in Wales to have a radio station, formerly called Head Radio, then Radio Tasker Milward. There are now two radio stations - Tasker Radio, for the Tasker building and Radio Milward for the Milward building, which started "Broadcasting" on Thursday 8 November 2007, but had a launch concert on Wednesday 7 November 2007.
Notable ex-pupils
- Almost 100 pupils have been accepted to Oxford University or Cambridge University
- Over 100 pupils died in World War I and World War II
- Stephen Crabb who is Member of Parliament for Preseli Pembrokeshire
- 'Sugs' from the music group 'Madness' is a former student of tasker Milward