AIBU to refuse to volunteer (and maybe even email my boss about it)

[Funkyslippers]

Myself and my team work on a term time only basis. We finish for the summer v soon. We've been working from home since lockdown, our normal hours.

We've now been emailed to ask us to volunteer over the summer to go in for a few days to prepare for next academic year but we won't be paid or get time off in lieu. Her words were "I'm relying on your goodwill at this time as I've supported you all over the past few months". Actually I feel it's the other way round! I've barely heard from her in the past few months.

We are under no obligation to go in and I feel like emailing her to say I could go in (but be quite vague about it as I have alot going on over the summer plus childcare) but to say I'm disappointed not to be offered TOIL or pay? I think most of the team feel the same.

so the person can’t have done their job if their boss has been supportive? Your question makes no sense
The question is simple. The message implies that he has been extra supportive. Maybe with the fact that some would need to also teach their kids, childcare issues, supporting teachers not wanting to do video lessons etc...

If he has allowed done extra flexibility to make teachers life easier, including a reduction of hours, it's only reasonable he should expect the same in return.

Doesn’t the OP say in her post that she doesn’t feel her boss has been supportive.

This would be normal in all schools I've worked in, spending time getting ready for the new year ahead.

These not really voluntary volunteering requests are deeply unfair to those who have to pay for childcare or have other caring commitments. And I say that as a teacher who does plenty of additional stuff unpaid... that interests me and occurs at reasonably convenient times. In my experience most teachers who run DofE or play in concerts like the outdoors/music at some level. It's hardly the same.

Much here depends on what your job is IMO, and how much of it you’ve been able to perform from home.