the 2016 Child Beale trophy, and qualifying for Henley Royal Regatta in 2015 and 2016. The boat club rowed out of Barn Elms for much of its existence, with a period at Putney Town Rowing Club, before moving to the Chiswick Boathouse next to Barnes Bridge in 2011. The boat club is now somewhat external to the school, managed by London Youth Rowing and races as The 1863 Club. The London Oratory School Fencing Club was recently founded. Other sports offered by the School include volleyball, tennis, netball, table tennis, hockey, angling, boxing and athletics, as well as lacrosse, skiing, sub-aqua, golf, basketball and horse riding being offered in the past. As well as the pool, the school has a newly renovated gym, which contains weights apparatus, bikes, treadmills and ergos. London Oratory School Schola The Schola Cantorum was established as a means of providing Catholic boys from the age of seven with a rigorous experience of choral education within the maintained system, something hitherto only available in the independent system. The development carried the full support and encouragement of the late Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Hume. The school's close association with the Oratory places it in a strong, if not unique, position to provide this form of specialist education and to contribute to the development of traditional liturgical music. The partnership between the Oratory and the school allows the school to train boys within the context of a living tradition and liturgy. The Oratory in London is part of a dynamic liturgical and musical tradition which goes back to the 16th century when the first Oratory was established in Rome at the time of the Counter-Reformation. Both Palestrina and Victoria were closely associated with the Oratory and St Philip Neri, its founder, and Victoria became an Oratorian. In particular, the Oratory in Europe has been closely associated with the development of polyphony and the chant. The Oratory in London has a reputation for maintaining this tradition and for providing some of the finest liturgy and liturgical music in Europe today. The school has a strong musical tradition and for many years has been closely associated with liturgy and music of the Oratory. The Schola sings at the Saturday evening Mass at the Oratory every week in term time and at other Masses and services during and outside term, and in the School Chapel during the week. In addition to