Palatine Community Sports College is a school in South Shore

South Shore, Blackpool

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, Blackpool

Blackpool

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, Lancashire

Lancashire

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. A National Lottery

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 Grant enabled the High School to be turned into a Community Sports College.
A new leisure centre has been built on the grounds. The £6.5 million centre was opened on the February 13, 2006, by Tessa Jowell

Tessa Jowell

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. Palatine expanded the sports it provides for children in P.E.

Physical education

Physical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....

 and started a new course, B-Tec first diploma in sport.

Palatine also has a new library.

The Ofsted inspection

The 2007 Ofsted

Ofsted

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inspection reported the school to be "...an improving and increasingly popular school where standards and achievements are rising". The Ofsted inspection was the first in six years.