- By Wonderful Adegoke
Ferscoat School has again established its place as a leading institution of learning with the emergence of one of its learners, Miss Idowu Oluwadarasimi Elizabeth as winner of the 2025 National Mathematics Competition.
The event was held at Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto State, from August 31 to September 5, 2025. It featured representatives from the 36 states of the federation in the final.
Two of Ferscoat School students qualified for the national competition as representatives of Lagos State having won the state edition of the competition.
Idowu Oluwadarasimi Elizabeth competed in the Senior Category and won first position out of 22 participants. She defeated representatives of Benue State who came second while Oyo State placed third
Sunday Dominion also from the school competed in Junior Category but placed 9th at the Olympiad out of 23 participants – Ogun State claimed first and second position while Oyo State came third.
According to the coordinator of the Olympiad, Mr. N. T. A. Abdul “all the students that represented Lagos State gave a good account of themselves and gave the state a wonderful representation that saw the state winning highest number of awards in the competition, third position in the primary category, quiz; second position in the primary category, Olympiad; first position in the senior category, Olympiad; best female in the primary category; and best female in the senior category.
He said: “I salute the confidence and composure of Elizabeth, she is a First class material if managed and motivated properly.
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“Ferscoat has been consistent in performance in the state Olympiad. The teachers needed to be specially congratulated and appreciated for the passion to which they put in to ensure that the school was placed on the map.
“For better performance in the future, I’ll suggest that the teachers encourage the students to do more critical thinking by giving them tasks that involve applications and thinking out of the box to solve problems with little or no guidance from the teachers, where possible.
“Competitions do not have a syllabus nor a scheme of work that can be used as a guide for preparation.” ““‘““This means that there’ll be a need for the teachers to prepare the students beyond their level.
While celebrating the school’s impressive performance at the national level, the principal, Mr. Fred Opata said: “It is to the glory of God and only shows the hard work put in place by the entire school community at ensuring excellence at all levels.
He explained that the school developed a strategy for competitions, we have a committee in place for all competitions. Last year we came third in the Awokoya Chemistry competition, 3rd in MAN Olympiad competition and this year it’s been much better. It falls back to the strategy put in place even though one cannot overrule the place of personal development of the learner.
On her feat, the 16-year-old Elizabeth said: “Honestly, my motivation was a mix of my own drive and the support I got from people around me. I wanted to prove to myself that with hard work and consistency, I could really achieve something big. At the same time, I thought about my parents’ sacrifices, my teachers who kept believing in me, and even my friends who challenged me to do better. I didn’t want to disappoint them, and that kept me going.”