what veg plants can i plant now

My daughter is now a learner gardener and in charge of the junior school garden. Aaaaarrrghh.  
What veg/herb plants can she buy now to start stocking it. The area doesnt get much sun  but it is all they have.
Looks like i am going to have my work cut out helping her, but i dont mind, the school is 2 minutes walk from my house.
(in the summer holidays this year, one day it was absolutely chucking it down and too wet for my garden and i resorted to an indoors day. Lucy popped her head in and asked me to help her with the school garden whcih was over run with tomatoes runner beans and strawberries - we got soooo soaked, but it was fun).

This is off the top of my head, ill post some more ideas as I think of them...(thinking of the shade and not the time of year)

Parsley will fine, as will mint - but plant mint in a pot as it will take over, A smal bay tree, and rosemary are nice as is lavender
Lettuce will be fine too, as will spinach (tell the kids to think of popeye    )
Peas dont mind shade, and runner beans get all big and flowery and exciting for them too
Pumpkins may work in the sunniest part of the plot, radish and beetroot are good and quick and kids love beetroot )in my experience anyway)

Paula

She actually passed it on to a few of the children from the village who go to the school, there was beetroot too but we made a chocolate and beetroot cake with them. Mmmmmmmm yummy.

The school also have a small plot in the local woods/forest which a group of children go to wach week from school.